How Does Someone Survive an Abortion? I Did and Here’s How It Happens

As originally posted on LifeNews on April 15, 2014: (http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/15/how-does-someone-survive-an-abortion-i-did-and-heres-how-it-happens/) Understandably, a lot of people have questions about abortion survivors. How we survive, why we survive, what...

This is our generation–The pro-life generation

“This is our generation.  This is our generation!” My soul soared as I overheard a group of pro-life students excitedly remarking this as their fellow classmates filed into the auditorium for a presentation that I was giving recently in Hamilton, Ontario,...

They will know we are Christians by our love

“Today in Church, Father Rogers talked to us about the song, ‘They will know we are Christians by our love’,” Olivia recently shared within moments of being picked up from school.  Considering all of the happenings that I typically hear about...

When one door closes, another door opens–Part II

It was nearly a year ago that I wrote a post about the door to a big chapter of my life closing, and what felt like, the door to my biological father’s family closing, as we moved to Kansas City from Sioux City...

How did my parents raise us to respect and love our birthfamilies?

I had a powerful conversation the other night at the Gospel Haven Church in Millersburg, Ohio, with an adoptive mother who is also a part of the Pure Gift of God adoption (you can check them out on Facebook) assistance program in the Millersburg community, and I...

A Child Changes Everything

A child changes everything.  I knew that heading into motherhood over six years ago, but I definitely lacked the understanding of just how everything would be changed by the arrival of our first-born. Yet, even six years ago, people were more than happy to share with...