Bringing In Our Writing Team for 2017!!!! Meet Rachelle Alspaugh I am a poet at heart, a blogger for “fun”, and a published author by surprise. I am a Dual Language Pre-K teacher, a passionate Bible study leader, a soccer mom, and an adoptive mom. I love to travel the world and to write the…
“You do realize no one has ever done this before, don’t you?” I’ll never forget those words. Of course we realized it, but we also knew God opened the door for us to pursue this adoption a second time. He already knew the final outcome and would walk with us to make it…
“Don’t open this until you get home.” I’d heard those words once already just a few weeks before. A friend from church invited me out for coffee. After a lovely evening catching up, we stood beside our cars outside to say goodbye. When she reached out to hug me, she handed me a sealed envelope…
Who can we trust? Who will protect our Country? Who will stop terrorist attacks? Who are we the people putting our trust in? We want freedom and security. We want peace on earth. Is there one Presidential Candidate that can do this for us? I’ve listened to both Republican and Democratic debates. I don’t agree…
I love seeing big numbers in my bank account (especially since I so rarely see them). I knew our tax refund check would be substantially larger than most years once we filed our taxes post-adoption. I envisioned all we could do with a few extra thousand dollars. I planned to take my recently adopted…
Ouch. I held the letter in my hands, still feeling the sting of the words I’d just read on the page. “This doesn’t make sense. I graduated with a 3.8 grade point average! My teachers have always praised me for being a good student. How could I not get accepted?” I sat on the…
“Let’s go camping!” My husband, Mike, suggested as we discussed our summer plans. After spending the last five years pursuing our now 16-year-old son’s adoption from Colombia, we eagerly awaited a relaxing, low-key summer. Three months lay in front of us to settle down and learn how to be the family God created us to…
We’d been home for a month with our newly adopted son after persevering through five years of emotional ups and downs in order to adopt him. We found him and lost him twice over a five year period, only to watch God finally outstretch His arm to give him back to us. I used to…
I memorized Bible verses often in my younger years in order to win all sorts of prizes at church. The actual goal of memorizing all those verses, to hide God’s Word in my heart so I might not sin against Him (Psalm 119:11), didn’t really sink in until much later in life. But I am…
I look so forward to getting to know our newest Community Writer. Real soon I will be publishing Rachelle’s story about adoption and I tell you what, you are all in for a wonderful surprise of a story. I can’t say no more because her story says it all. I’m inspired by her courage and…
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