When Faith Pushes Fear Aside

Snow. Snow blanketing the world this week transforming everything into a beautiful winter wonderland instantly carrying me back to another world another time and I remember. Russia.  December 2002. I had flown alone on the trip to complete the adoption of my daughter....

The Choice

As I gazed out on the busy street in Kiev, my tears flowed freely. My journey to adopt a little girl had come to a crushing end leaving me with empty arms and a broken heart. “I’m beginning to learn,” I wrote in my journal that day “not to ask why. I will trust you no...

The Power Of One Life

I can still see the first time I met him. I was a young woman having taught one year of first grade in upstate New York. And he was the principal. It was only a few days before the opening of school that year. My heart beat furiously as he interviewed me for the...