For more than 20 years, National Adoption Month has been observed in November to raise awareness of children and teenagers in foster care who await permanent families. This month, as part of a periodic feature of someone exemplifying Faith & Sweat, meet the Turnure family. Janet and Doug Turnure’s journey to becoming foster and adoptive parents began while taking a family walk on a summer … [Read more...] about Faith & Sweat: Fostering Hope
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Breathe: Lamenting What Was, Showing Up to What Is
Some of us are breathing again, on this day after Mother's Day. The ones breathing again today lost babies during pregnancy or at birth. The ones breathing today grieve not being able to conceive a child in their womb, only in their heart and mind. The ones breathing today buried a child, lost their own mother to death, or watched her fade away because of memory loss. The ones breathing today … [Read more...] about Breathe: Lamenting What Was, Showing Up to What Is
