Dear Mom, a letter to you on your birthday. Dear Mom, thank you for teaching me how to love, and now, how to grieve. Read More Abby MortensonJanuary 15, 2024Comment
Year Two: Dear Mom, a letter to you on your birthday. Dear Mom, foster mama, thank you, GriefJanuary 14, 2017darkness, death, foster care, God, grief, grief and loss, Healing, hope, letter, letter to mom, light, momComment
When your Heart Really Hurts at Christmas Adoption Journey, faith, grief and lossDecember 22, 2016ache, adoption, advent, brokenness, christmas, embryo adoption, embryo donation, grief, hope, infertility, Jesus, loss, miscarriage, peace, sadness, shalom Comments
Between the Broken and Beautiful July 11, 2016brokenness and beauty, foster care, foster mama, foster parenting, foster parents, fostering, God's love, isaiah 58, life's journey, parenting, refuge, restoration, toddler, toddlers Comment
Five things I learned in Five Days of Foster Care orphan careMay 6, 20165 things, foster care, foster care awareness, foster care awareness month, foster care is, foster mama, fostercare, fostering, hope, loved, may, sacrifice, takes a village, US fostercare, worth itComment
To Be a Refuge: Making room for more Adoption Journey, faith, foster mama, God's Adoption, orphan careMarch 19, 2016family, foster care, fostering, God's faithfulness, God's love, God's plan, God's provision, Jesus, kids, love, refuge Comments
The Crack is where the Light gets in. faith, HealingFebruary 6, 2016art, beauty for ashes, beauty from ashes, creative expression, death, failed adoption, flourish, flourishing hearts, God, God's faithfulness, grief, grief and healing, grief and loss, grieving, healing hearts, hope, joy, joy instead of mourning, loss, mini-retreat, mom, mourning, online retreat, online workshop, retreat, trusting God, yoga, yoga workshopComment
Dear Mom. A letter to you on your birthday. faithJanuary 14, 2016anniversary, birthday, death, grief, grief and loss, hope, letter, letter to mom, losing someone, loss, love, missing mom, mom, mother, mothers, sadness Comments
On the Refugee Crisis and Following Jesus grief and loss, orphan careNovember 18, 2015adoption, Christian, Christianity, compassion, foster care, God's love, Jesus, love your enemies, radical love, refugee, refugee children, refugee crisis, refugee minors, terrorist attacksComment
World Adoption Day and Next Steps Adoption Journey, orphan careNovember 9, 2015adoption, adoption story, anchor of the soul, foster care, God is love, grief, hope, lutheran family services, orphan sunday, orphan Sunday church, orphans, refugee, refugee children, refugee crisis, refugee kids, refugee minors, refugees, the God who loves, world adoption day Comments
Exhausted but in Pursuit Adoption JourneyAbby MortensonSeptember 29, 2015adoption, adoption journey, adoption loss, adoption struggles, africa, bethel, bethel sermon, death, exhausted, faith, grief, grief and loss, hope, Jesus, joy, kids, pursuit, questioning, uganda, walk with God Comments