In our world today we have instant communication with cell phones and text messaging. We have constant distractions from the TV, radio, music, people, work, and so on. And all this can get in the way of successful communication. And when kids are involved, they sure have a way of distracting and hindering communication, if…
My wife walked into the bedroom the other day and says, “Here sweetie, I brought you your cotton balls.” I’m not sure if she could see the confusion on my face, but I was caught off guard. “Cotton balls, why did you bring me cotton balls?” After I finished speaking, I got it. She was…
My husband and I were visiting his parents back when he and I were still just engaged. It was a normal visit, a normal day, a normal moment. The four of us walked along, talking about this and that, and my father-in-law cracked a joke. I stopped dead in my tracks. “What did you say?”…
If the echoing theme in the first half of Born to Deliver, was loneliness, the second half is indisputably adoption. Kathy Brace’ story opens with the agonizing birth of her first child when she is fifteen years old. Within hours, her son was stripped from her arms and given up for adoption. Her young heart had…
Black stains adorned my hands as I typed. No metaphor there. I pulled into Panera on my way to a graduate counseling class that covered the life cycle of marriage. I sat down with my coffee and pulled out my journal for a rare forty-five uninterrupted minutes. Did I mention that snowflakes fell softly on…
