It is ironic how much a person can anticipate, plan, dream, imagine how a situation can be and how vastly different it turns out to be. I had not given much thought to a reunion of adoptees until I was facing one. What does one say? What do I ask? Are there subjects off-limits forContinue reading “The Chosen Life: Revelation and Reality”
Category Archives: The Chosen Life
The Chosen Life: Lost and Found
Folks have asked me all my life about my level of curiosity surrounding my natural background as an adoptee. Often asking me: Don’t you want to know who you are?”: Even today, my reply remains unchanged, “I Know Who I am.” Even my own children in their early curious childhood would naturally ask questions. IfContinue reading “The Chosen Life: Lost and Found”
The Chosen Life: Facts and Feelings
As I have traveled through the journey of drafting the blog segments from the original writings about the chosen life, God continues to speak to my heart about truth. It’s been important for Him to remind me that while I share experiences and tell accounts from my life, it is crucial that it be bathedContinue reading “The Chosen Life: Facts and Feelings”
The Chosen Life: Out of the Mouths of Babes and Wolves
The writing of the Chosen life required lots of praying and editing. I faced leaving and taking things out everytime I sat down to write. The challenge to be transparent drove me to my prayer closet many times. This particular blog was like a bruise on my heart. Not devastating, but enough of a bumpContinue reading “The Chosen Life: Out of the Mouths of Babes and Wolves”
The Chosen Life: Names and Faces
Last time in the vineyard I shared about the adventure of name changes. Obviously because I was a 3 month old baby, my transition was going to be easy compared to that of my older brother who was over 4 years old when he faced this. Because I was a part of a closed adoptionContinue reading “The Chosen Life: Names and Faces”
The Chosen Life: A Baby in the Bulrushes
Upon bringing me home, my parents began a routine. They introduced me to a church family every week. My first visitors were L.D. and Ivslee Richardson, a young deacon in Dad’s church. L.D and my father had grown up together as boys in rural east Tennessee and had remained friends. Ivalee would be my churchContinue reading “The Chosen Life: A Baby in the Bulrushes”
The Chosen Life…. Another Choice
After adopting Daryl, my folks had quite a busy year. They were busy with Daryl’s eye surgeries, work, and ministry. Dad was pastoring a mission on the lower east side of Detroit that met in a storefront. Edison and Beulah remained unsettled about their family but trusted God would add if He saw fit. ThoughContinue reading “The Chosen Life…. Another Choice”
The Chosen Life: God, Our Source
As I mentioned in a previous blog, The Chosen Life series was written with a particular family in mind who were preparing to adopt. I thought that would be the end of it after I had given them the journal. But then God began nudging me that the concepts of adoption, chosenness, etc., were soContinue reading “The Chosen Life: God, Our Source”
The Chosen Life: A New Name
Our God is wonderful and mysterious in so many ways but one of the facets of His character that blesses me is that He is a name changer. All through the scriptures you will read accounts of God;s deliberate act of giving names. From Adam and Eve, Abraham, Jacob to all the places God namedContinue reading “The Chosen Life: A New Name”
The Chosen Life: A Rough Start
One might think by now that I would have come to understand that a life of faith doesn’t mean there won’t be a hardship. Though my brain knows this from life experience and confirmed by scriptural truth, my heart hopelessly holds to the romantic notion that following God will somehow guarantee that I will escapeContinue reading “The Chosen Life: A Rough Start”
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