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what I want you to know: the impact of adoption loss

July 9, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by an anonymous reader. I fell to my knees onto the floor of the hotel's Berber carpeting and cried out to God. I had no idea five months ago when I signed on to adopt domestically that my heart would . . .

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what I want you to know: cutting

June 28, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by an anonymous reader.   My road down self injury started with a diagnosis of depression when I was 14 and a prescription that didn't work. I tried cutting because I had heard about it as a . . .

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what I want you to know: the legacy of growing up in foster care

June 27, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by LT, who blogs about her life after aging out of foster care. When I was in foster care, I felt so different from the rest of the world. I knew I was different….how could I not. I did not have a . . .

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what I want you to know: pressumptions about single moms

June 24, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by an anonymous reader. If you are new around here, this is usually a weekly series, but for the next few weeks it will be a daily feature.      I'm a single mom.  I've never . . .

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what I want you to know: adopting an older child

June 23, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by the author of the blog Last Mom.  If you are new around here, this is usually a weekly series, but for the next few weeks it will be a daily feature.     My husband and I adopted . . .

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what I want you to know: married to the ministry

June 22, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by Claire.   I sometimes feel invisible. You don’t always see me. You don’t think I’m a faithful supporter of the work of my husband’s ministry. It's our ministry, but sometimes he's the only . . .

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what I want you to know: cancer at 24

June 21, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by Andrea Mayhew.   At 24 I was single,going out with friends and living a carefree life. It was December of 2002 and all of sudden my high school sweetheart came back in my life and we were . . .

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what I want you to know: adoption is born of pain

June 20, 2011

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions.  It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by Shannon. What I want you to know is that adoption is not beautiful. Not beautiful in the traditional sense anyway. There’s no innocence or purity it in. My husband and I have two adopted children, . . .

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what I want you to know: family secrets

December 5, 2010

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story, email me.  Today is a guest post by Jessica. My name is Jessica, I am a forty year old married mother of four.  I can’t share my last name or blog, because my story affects several other people, and their story deserves to be where they want . . .

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What I Want You To Know: Homeschooling

October 15, 2010

Today’s What I Want You To Know is from Wendy at Mountain Meanderings.  What I want you to know about homeschooling: I home-school my children for many reasons, and not one of them is because I think I’m better than you.  It simply means that I think this schooling option is better for my children.  Just because I home-school does not mean that I think the school  you send your child to is inferior.  It means that for my children, I’m exercising my responsibility to . . .

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