This is the kind of love I hope to have someday…..
A Forever Kind of Love
by Christy M. Martin
One of our favorite patients had been in and out of our small, rural hospital several times, and all of us on med-surg. had grown quite attached to her and her husband. In spite of terminal cancer [...]

The other day I came across three references to the debate over the right’s of homosexuals to adopt.  My opinion is and always will be that this is not in the best interest of the child and therefore not something I will support. I have several reasons to back up this claim too, I’m not [...]

I wrote an earlier  post about my opinion of national adoption month and I also posted an article written by another birth mom. There are so many different views though of adoption and therefore of adoption month also.  These are just a few below. The first article below references my blog post on adoption day, [...]

more to come soon…..
Spring 2009 nationwide campaign

This is the coolest story! Even if you don’t agree with me on abortion, you must admit this would make you think twice too. Dreams are meaningful alright, and it’s amazing how God can work in people through them! And to think, this man is forgiven of all his sins (he converted, so I [...]

by Max Lucado
If God has called you to be a Martha, then serve! Remind the rest of us that there is evangelism in feeding the poor and there is worship in nursing the sick.
If God has called you to be a Mary, then worship! Remind the rest of us that we don’t have to [...]

And every other day too!
I know you can’t read yet, but it wouldn’t be the best idea for me to post this if you could. So I’ll take advantage of the opportunity now, while your still such a little girl today!
Cause I am SO SO SO PROUD of you, and I can’t [...]

“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”
~ Susan B. Anthony, quoted in The American Feminist, Spring 1998 [...]

“Even dead bodies can float downstream,” he used to say, pointing that many people can coast when the Church is respected, “but it takes a real man, a real woman, to swim against the current.”

Since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states, the U.S. government reports that more than 43 million abortions have been performed on some 27 million women. It’s estimated that approximately 43 percent of women who’ve reached the age of 45 have had an abortion.

So, I had hoped to [...]

Billy Graham is 90 today!

From John Piper’s Desiringgod.com blog:

“One of the great fears of my life as a boy growing up in Greenville, South Carolina is that Billy Graham would die. Today he is 90 years old. Thank you, Lord, that you answered my boyish prayers. Happy birthday, Billy. Here’s to your life!
Billy Graham [...]

radio quiz

not in mean spirits, just funny…

For the few birth moms that may actually read my blog:
I thought this was a post worth repeating to you… (from: http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com)
I celebrate and promote everything adoption related just because I love the act of adoption in general and what it represents. However, I do wish like this girl below, that we were recognized somewhere..mainly [...]

A quick quote from Between Two Worlds: Piper, Politics, and Abortion: A Few Thoughts a man that says it better than I can:
The Knights of Columbus recently catalogued the many small successes achieved in the pro-life political process since 1973:

The Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortions;
The federal law banning partial birth abortions, which [...]

November is National Adoption Month! November 15 is National Adoption Day!!
Celebrated in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, more than 300 events are held each year throughout the country to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care, and to celebrate all families who adopt. In total, more than 20,000 children [...]