Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. His acceptance speech at the awards ceremony in Oslo on December 10 of that year included the following: I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him [...]
Category: Foster
Culture Club
Something that has happened over the years is that we tend to spend more time with families that look like ours. Foster families. Adoptive families. Multiracial families.You get the point. We love being around people who get who we are as a family. There is great comfort being around like minded people. As we are drawn [...]
Give Peace a Chance
There is much pain and sorrow in this life. Sadly, because of what we are called to, we have knowledge of and deal with the consequences of abuse and neglect in the lives of little ones. Many of them are unsettled in their spirits and know no peace. Peace I leave with you; my peace [...]
Empowering your kids is, well, Empowering
The reason we are big proponents of Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) at our house is that it works for everyone. It doesn't matter if the children are adopted, birth or foster this stuff just works. Perhaps an explanation of our family dynamics would help to illustrate the point. I'll be brief. We have three [...]
Foster the People
Last Monday we opened our home to a twenty one month old little boy and his four day old sister. Being the home kids are placed in immediately after they are removed from their families is very surreal. It almost feels like you're watching a movie. I can only start to imagine how traumatic it [...]
Healing Homes
I love music. I love listening to music, I love playing music, I love watching music, I love almost any kind of music. Pandora is on more than the TV at our house. One of my favorite artists is Third Day. Some years ago they released a song called Cry Out to Jesus. Here is [...]
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
One of the most famous parables in the Bible is that of the Good Samaritan. It is, in fact, so famous we have Good Samaritan laws. It describes how we treat those we don't know. It does post an interesting and difficult question. It goes to the heart of something that we contemplate for our [...]