Over four years a
go, my multi-talented web designer friend Natalie Jost, wrote a blog post about her search to find her birth mother. She generously offered one of her books as a giveaway on my blog so that others could read of her challenges and gain hope.
Natalie is one of the most soul-baring, deeply honest, and truly humble women I know. She’s not afraid to rock the boat of complacency if it will move it closer to the shore where Jesus waits. Her book, Finding My Mother, offers hope and courage to other adopted children who are beginning or in the midst of their searches.
Half of all proceeds from the sale of her book and its companion journals will go to support CASA, an organization that uses volunteers to act as advocates for children caught between their birth parents and “the system” trying to help them, and similar organizations.
Please leave a comment to have a chance to be sent this book. Click HERE for information about PDF downloads and journals. And while you’re in her web neighborhood, check out her textiles and paper goods at her Olive Manna store online.

around the internet. I happened to find this one on one of my former student’s Facebook site [thanks to Stephanie!]. I added a few of my own…Feel free to share your hometown








Is it worth it? You betcha. To be surrounded by my family, to celebrate, and to be grateful? Oh, yes. Sometimes, I simply watch my grown children as they talk to and laugh with one another. I delight in the generosity of God’s grace that makes it all possible, and for the treasure that those moments are to me. And I am so achingly aware of the rush of time, the winds of years brushing by me, impossible to stop them. So, I tell my heart to move in slow motion, to capture the smiles, the hugs and the sound of their voices.





