Who am I? Where do I fit? Do I truly belong? These questions shape children, families, classrooms, and communities more than we often realize. This post reflects on identity, belonging, and what it means to create spaces where people are truly seen and safe.
Category: Adoption
Stories and reflections on adoption, foster care, identity, and belonging.
The Parts of Adoption You Don’t See
From the outside, adoption often looks beautiful ... but the hardest parts of the story usually live behind the lens. This post explores the unseen emotional, relational, and spiritual work of adoption, especially in transracial families, and what real support actually looks like.
Trauma-Informed Parenting: The Next Best Step
Trauma does not always show up in obvious ways. In this post, I reflect on more than a decade of trauma-informed parenting, shaped by foster care, adoption, therapy, faith, and a lot of humility. This is a story about learning to see behavior as communication, releasing control, and choosing faithfulness when answers are hard to find. It is about hope that grows slowly, grace that meets us daily, and trusting God one next step at a time.
Foster Care: Learning to Love Without Ownership
Foster care was nothing like we expected. It stretched us, humbled us, and revealed how deeply we needed community. From intense training and constant uncertainty to profound grief and unexpected beauty, this post reflects on the hard and holy realities of loving children without guarantees, and how foster care became one of the clearest pictures of the gospel we have ever lived.
To Riches
Our journey to welcome our son was long, stretching our faith and patience, yet revealing just how deep the Father’s love truly runs. After walking through delayed conception, cancer, and loss, God led us into foster care, where, against all odds, a 10-day-old baby entered our lives on a day already etched in our family’s story. His arrival brought healing and hope, a reminder that even in grief, God is still creating beauty from ashes.
