God’s Perfect Plan of Adoption

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I was 25 when we realized we might have a problem getting pregnant. We had already been married for five years and had not really tried to prevent pregnancy for several of those years. So with this realization, an eight-year journey of infertility began.

In about our seventh year of what seemed like endless fertility tests, medications, and procedures, and then month after month of receiving the disappointing news of no pregnancy, we began to talk more seriously about adoption. Robert and I had always been open to adoption, but as you may know, that process takes a long time and costs a lot of money.

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The Blessing of Sweet Memories

Addiction is a thief. It steals not only the addict’s ability to live a productive, fruitful life, but it also steals from those who love the addict and makes you blind to the person you know is underneath.

As the parent, you can find yourself so focused on trying to find help for your son or daughter, that life becomes completely submerged in all the bad that goes on around addiction. We can forget who our child really is underneath the surface.

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