by Brian Luwis ( https://awaa.org/adopt/biblical-perspective-on-adoption ) A Spirit of Fear My position and purpose as the co-founder of American World Adoption are actually the result of my wife, Renée's, courageous actions years ago. Unlike the majority of couples that pursue their adoption plans together, my wife researched adoption alone—I was afraid to join her. After three years of marriage, Renée left her job to prepare our home for the children we hoped to have. As ti

By Sharri Black September 2, 2020 https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/adoptive-parent-hard/ As an adoptive parent, have you ever had the fleeting thought that perhaps you didn’t hear God right? When you believed He called you to adopt, or that He made a mistake in calling you? Maybe you’ve expressed to God, a close friend, or even a therapist (your child’s or your own) about how hard this journey has become. Or, have you ever heard yourself saying, “I didn’t sign up for

John 10:10 (1/23/2023) Amy Shaw https://youtu.be/2HrL76aACB8?si=-ynEo--wx08LCgzB Good morning! That’s my favorite greeting. I like to...

By Shannon Guerra at Copperlight Wood The noise could almost make your heart stop. Your mind tries to process whether it is a scream or a cry, an unnatural wail that sounds like a mythological animal dying, heaving its last gasps of breath.  Then it stops…and you realize the kids are just blowing through blades of grass. Is any other innocent summer pastime as guilty of inducing heart attacks as this one? It’s just grass blades and air. Nothing to be alarmed by. But that know

By Shannon Guerra at Copperlight Wood In a patch of the yard, a two-year-old boy plays in a dirt pile with his red plastic shovel. You can’t really see him but you know he’s there because of the haze of dirt suspended eighteen inches off the ground in that general area, floating lazily to the west. And down the hill, an older boy gathers a bucket of dirt. But no, he’s not doing it for fun, but as a consequence   for refusing to do school. He didn’t tell us he didn’t want to s