It Takes a Village

Our foster baby got hospitalized a few weeks ago---thankfully we were discharged last week---and we really got a taste of what experts advise those who want to venture into orphan care: everyone may not be called to foster or adopt, but everyone can do something. For example, my hubby and I slept in the hospital…

The Power of Stories

I picked up a book from the second hand bookstore recently, simply because the author was familiar: a friend had given me a book by Sally Clarkson a couple of years back, entitled The Ministry of Motherhood, and I remember that it had impacted me greatly. This time, I glanced at this book entitled Different,…

God’s Little Agents of Healing

When I first picked up Silas Marner by George Eliot, what encouraged me to read the book was the description on the back cover. It summarized the book as the story of an old miser weaver who traded his gold for a foundling child. Being a foster and adoptive parent myself, that immediately piqued my…

Father of the Fatherless

While in our season of renewal and recharging in between fostering assignments, I went through a time of asking the Lord why so many difficult things came about from our having fostered older children: so many weaknesses came to the surface, and even after the children have moved on, we still continued to struggle from…

Jane Eyre

In our family quest for adding more beautiful things into our lives, both my husband and I have continued to add classic works to our reading lists. Along the way, we've started noticing that a lot of the main characters in classic literature were orphans: Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna, Mary of…