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Stop, Listen, and Learn

July 23, 2020 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

What I learned from a look inside my toy box.

It has been hugely humbling and stretching to parent precious Black lives amidst recent BLM events. When we first took classes to become foster parents almost 12 years ago, the trainer asked all participants to consider how our families would respond to us parenting kids that looked different than we did. My initial response was […]

Filed Under: + Craving Justice, + Foster Care · Tagged With: BLM, foster parenting, humility, inclusivity

Miracles That Take Too Long

December 10, 2019 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Miracles (Far) Ahead

Certain aspects of parenting can leave me depressed, angry, worried, and afraid. So I pray. And pray. And pray. And pray. In three out of the four primary situations this year, I’m still praying. That doesn’t feel like success. In fact, I’m pretty sure 25% is an abysmal score on most grading scales. This was […]

Filed Under: + Craving Justice, + Resilience & Healing · Tagged With: foster care

Social Media’s Teen Years and Public Debate

October 3, 2017 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Social Media as a forum for Public Debate

I’ve been using social media for a decade now. I can still remember some of my first posts, where I wrote stuff like, “Going to Target now. Gotta get some milk.” Wow. So profound. Or how about this one: “Just got back from picking the girls up for school. Now begins the homework rush.” Yeah, […]

Filed Under: + Craving Justice, + Endless Grace, Faith & Culture ·

An ice bucket challenge video that actually teaches about ALS

August 19, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

ALS Video Response

We’ve all seen a ton of those #icebucketchallenge videos, right? You’ve undoubtedly been affected somehow already. Well, when I was challenged, I couldn’t quite figure out how to respond. On one hand, I completely support the idea of raising awareness and money to find this disease. I love how the greater community has come together […]

Filed Under: + Craving Justice · Tagged With: als, ice bucket challenge, water crisis

Glory-strength in grief

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

Scripture from Colossians 1 (The Message)

Earlier this month, a tragedy struck our community in Managua, when a missionary family lost their nineteen-year-old daughter in a freak accident. She was laying in a hammock strung between two palm trees when one of the trees broke. She fell out of the hammock and hit her head on a concrete block nearby. She […]

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