Today, I’m honored to be posting at #LiveFully for my friend Evan Forester. Evan and his wife Morgan packed everything up and moved to New Zealand last summer.  Now that their boxes are unpacked and they are settling in, Evan asked me to answer a few questions about adoption and orphan care for his community: Why are you so passionate about adoption? What made you move from thinking about adoption to actually living it and doing it? How has adoption led to a more full life? Have there been any unexpected challenges? How did you cope with them? How do you hope […]

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People ask why we adopted. (I sometimes want to look back at them and ask why they gave birth, but that’s a different post.) We’ve told the story of how; we’ve told the story of what and where. And you certainly have heard about how the girls have changed our lives. But I don’t think we’ve ever sufficiently answered why. It’s simple, really…we fell in love. For us, adoption wasn’t an answer to infertility, it wasn’t a way to meet a deep unfulfilled yearning to be parents, it wasn’t even through a passion to “save” an orphan. We just fell […]

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Last week, I shared with y’all the beautiful “why” of our adoptions. Now, I want to show you how five minutes of your time could help thousands of children live a similar love story. As you may have heard, the Justin-Bieber-popular federal adoption tax credit is scheduled to be drastically cut at the end of this year. Like to $0 for most adoptive families. Without this credit, many families will not be able to afford the high cost of adopting a child. Despite your narcoleptic reaction every time you hear the word “legislation,” this is important. Stay awake through the […]

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Does anyone remember the JCPenney Catalog?  In The Days Before The Internet?   When I was a kid, I invested hours circling items that I wanted. The catalog was as big as a phone book and showed a picture of every thing that had ever been made. If it existed, it was available in that catalog. And I circled it. My family went to church, and I knew Christmas was about Jesus’ birthday.  But it was also about the stuff.  Sneaking down to get my stocking before anyone else was up.  Finding millions of gifts piled under the tree.  Peeking at […]

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Two years ago, World Racer Jenn Watson met a little Chinese boy with Down Syndrome named Zi. Jenn took a leap of faith when she asked her family to adopt him, and God opened every door to make it possible. Check out their amazing story…

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