Postmodernism-Part 1

I read this in a recent edition of a newsletter I get related to ministry.  Feel free to visit the source if you would like to read the entire article at this website, Men Passing the Batton. Post modernism is not something new to anyone who has studied history or philosophical thought.  Post modernism is …

Fathering

Some of my most painful memories from youth came flooding back to me about 5 years ago.  I was not involved in therapy or anything like that.  By nature I am very melancholic, so it must have been one very lowly day. My parents divorced when I was 12 and I became disconnected from my …

…Sometimes…

…We laugh at our kids. …We discipline our kids. …We cry with our kids. …We sacrifice for our kids. …We have it all figured out. …We have nothing figured out. …We pull our hair out so we don’t pull theirs out. …We breakdown and cry. …We get stressed. …We wish we had a ‘happy place.’ …

N.A.M pt 11-Our Agency

Link: International Adoption :: International Adoption Agency. Adoption is one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted things in parenthood.  Bad press, like corrupt social services, media that has the motto “if it bleeds, it leads,” and people that feel like having adopted children is like being a second class citizen.  Recently our county, city, and …

N.A.M pt 8-Goodbye!?

What are we doing? What must the kids be thinking?  Who are we?  All these questions popped into our head as we were preparing to meet our kids when we arrived in Colombia.  Just today “SuperMami” (my name for my beautiful wife ‘mami’ is pronounced mommy) told me what “Mowgli” (our name for our oldest …