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As I stood in front of the door of our new living quarters, I had Jamison on my hip, while holding Julian’s hand. Taking a deep breath and then blowing out the heaviness from my sorrow, I opened the door to my new life. In 2009, I unexpectedly had to move from Florida to the… Continue reading God’s Provision and Protection During My Cancer Fight – by Jewel Taylor

I was pumping breastmilk for my seven-month-old daughter Taylor when I first felt a lump in my breast. I was at her daycare pumping the milk to leave for the next day. I didn’t think much about the lump as I thought it was a clogged milk duct, so I massaged the lump as I… Continue reading Unshakeable Faith During My Cancer Fight – by Tina May

After a few days of a really sore neck, I woke up with a painful throat. Nineteen hours later I couldn’t even walk, and there were purple spots in my eyes from broken blood vessels. My husband rushed me to my doctor a few minutes away from our home, but they couldn’t locate my blood… Continue reading Trading My Scars for God’s Splendor – An Adoption Story by Rebecca Robinson

I always wanted children, but it took me a long time to become a mother. After battling infertility and failed artificial insemination attempts, I finally had Danielle when I was thirty-seven. As a single mom working two jobs, my mother helped me care for her. But the desire to have more children never left me,… Continue reading When the Road is Difficult – An Adoption Story by Brenda Woodard

Late one night in 2015 while working for a crisis response organization, I was assigned to an emergency home dispatch. As a Mobile Response team member, I was routinely assigned to investigate behavioral or mental health issues. Soon after my arrival, the two children I was checking on fell asleep, and the mother poured out… Continue reading As God’s Word Changes Hearts – An Adoption Story by Allison Bell

“I’m sorry Tom, but you are sterile and will likely never bear children.” I looked at my husband, devastated. After over three years of trying to conceive, thirty-six months of praying and hoping for a baby, the doctor’s words were like a punch in the gut. I barely listened as he proceeded to share other options… Continue reading Being Steadfast in the Storm – An Adoption Story by Faith Evans

As I stared at the picture of my family – my husband Scott, and my son Brian – I hoped that the birth parents reviewing our portfolio would be drawn to our family and give us the honor of raising their unborn child. At first, family consisted of just Brian and me, then I married… Continue reading Trusting God’s Timing and Process – An Adoption Story by Jeanine Robbins

As we were planning our marriage, my husband Eric and I talked about having four children. We had always considered adoption, but of course, that would come after we had our own children naturally. It was always in our hearts to bring a child into our home who needed a loving family. However, God had… Continue reading Seeking God’s Voice for Direction – An Adoption Conversation with Jennifer Smedberg

I’m not going to sugarcoat anything. These last six years of marriage have been tough. But what could be so difficult about being married to your best friend? Terrell and I grew up a block away from each other but didn’t know each other. We even worked at the same job at one point, but… Continue reading When the Blender is Broken (Stepmoms) – By Jasmine Moore

As a teenager, dating someone with a child, my thoughts oscillated between where to go out to eat Friday night and talking through parenting styles with the dreamy guy across the table. Seven years later, I stood face to face with that dreamy guy, saying “I do” and in that sacred moment becoming a wife… Continue reading Chosen Motherhood (Stepmoms) – by Stephanie Judy