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Archives for July 2014

Birds and Bees

July 30, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

From the archives… I posted this to my personal blog four years ago today. Enjoy! The other day, I was driving home from softball with my two daughters and their friends. The radio station we normally listen to was all talk, so we decided to sing some old camp songs to pass the time. The […]

Filed Under: + Making Me Laugh, + Parenting ·

Halfway to crazy

July 23, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

following God halfway to crazy

This feels really crazy. Then again, getting rid of our stuff was crazy. Moving to Central America was crazy. Selling our “rainy day” house was crazy. So crazy started awhile back for us. But this… this flying to the middle of Ohio, of all places (sorry if you’re from there, but it just sounds so […]

Filed Under: + Adoption Care, + Not of This World · Tagged With: flying, fundraising, missionary, travel

Finding a way for the possible

July 8, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

"If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it." - Sir Nicholas Winton

In 1939, Nicholas Winton used a two-week vacation to go to Prague and ended up saving the lives of 669 children. I’ll let that sink in for a minute and then explain. He was a stock-broker — a regular guy — from London who was concerned about the Jewish people in Czechoslovakia due to the impending invasion […]

Filed Under: + Quick Thoughts ·

Raquel and Rachel

July 4, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me - you did it to me. (from Matthew 25:40)

The first time Raquel* met her second parents, they ushered her into their rented apartment and showed her a variety of items symbolizing her new life. Raquel proceeding to express her interest in this new life by throwing each of the articles of clothing into a heaping pile at the feet of her excited audience, […]

Filed Under: + Adoption Care · Tagged With: adoption, foster care, Nicaragua

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