All posts by Thom
Death of a Rabbit
I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. I miss you and often wish for your company. Let me tell you a story of recent events. Have you been home since your mom bought me this new chair I’m sitting on? I really like it. I spend so much time in it that I think…
Ghost Writer
My wife took the time recently to remember and write part of our story together. What follows is the abbreviated tale from Keri’s perspective of our wild adoption adventures. My life is nothing like I expected it to be. As a teenage girl I had my future carefully planned. I would attend college, get married…
Our Chronic Ailment
My Friend, Is it possible for one to be a mini-church pastor or a named leader of a ministry of our church and yet not attend the worship service on Sunday morning with the rest of us? What is happening in the heart of one who carries out their role in a church sponsored ministry…
Loose Strings and Frayed Knots
I can’t think of anything in my life that affected me more profoundly than when my heart got the news that I am unconditionally loved and accepted by God. It seems like such a simple thing doesn’t it; God’s love and acceptance of us? The hard part was accepting it for myself. The implications/consequences for…
Ana, Nicoleta, Luc, Mom, and Dad
Uh…I forgot to mention that Ana arrived three weeks ago. Once Miguel gets here I’m having an adoptive vasectomy performed. As a further precaution Keri is having an adoptive hysterectomy. These are simple procedures that we can perform at home. But I don’t know, that’s just me talkin’.
God’s Call for an Ordinary Man
Hey You, I didn’t know you were going to a Christian University. What’s it called? I’ll answer your lame and boring questions only because I love you so much. I would have thought that by this time the Christian University culture would have figured out that they are asking the wrong questions. Since I’m the…
I Believe in Magic
For the next few minutes please allow yourself a break from your present reality. There is a supernatural agenda at work that has brought us here together. For just a little while forget all that a lifetime of experience has taught you. Tune out and turn off the tyranny of what must be accomplished before…
Home in the Desert
To My Friend, I think it’s ironic that from time to time God invites you to join him in the desert. For me it works the other way around. I live in the desert and I’m urged toward the stream of humanity. You may wish to consider that you are made for the desert and…
Have You Found the Bottom?
My great regret in life is the disconnect that occurred between me and my family. I sometimes think that there is something fundamental missing in me. What happened to me? I watch the way my wife interacts with her family and I don’t get it. They are interested and concerned with one another. I feel…
Guatemala Closes
Dear Friends, I’m writing to you as a man whose life was changed because of the way God used the ministry of All God’s Children in my life. I have two children from Romania and two others who will soon be home from Hannah’s Hope in Guatemala City. When my wife and I first began…