one story

"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home...some summer and some winter... My hope is that your story will be about changing...about learning to love a child...about learning to love others more than we love ourselves...

We get one story, you and I, one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?

And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don’t worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed." Don Miller- painted deserts


A fellow adoptive mom and friend shared this quote on her blog, as she reflected on the past 2 years that her daughter has been home.

It is good wisdom. (I love using others words to put the thoughts and emotions in my head down on paper.) It's just true. There is no explaining of his words that needs to be done.

What's your story? Have you ventured out? Have you chosen to venture out? Has He made you venture out by not leaving you alone about something? Has he squarely put something in your path, in your life, on your heart, that you can't deny, escape, ignore? You won't be alone. Face it and embrace it. Grow, Change, Learn...LOVE.