For Lilia, my children, and the many others around the world who ache for a different beginning... This is what really happened... You slip into the world raw and trembling, aching for tender touch. But instead, the one you most long for walks away. You huddle there, vulnerable in an abandoned building, or a slum…Read more Always Held
adoption
Open Adoption – a Photo Essay
Everleigh entered this world on August 14, 2016, welcomed by birth mother, Delaney; birth father, Kenny; and birth grandmother, Karen. On August 17, Everleigh went home in the arms of adoptive parents, Casey and Michael. Nine months later.... with special thanks to Hope's Promise (Adoption Agency) of Castle Rock, CO. (303) 660-0277.
Meeting Myself There
After returning home last week from co-leading the Hope's Promise 2017 Connection Team to Kenya, I wrestle to process a mind-bending juxtaposition of past and present. The team stayed at a guest house in the community where I lived with my sons for five months while adopting my daughter in 2005.... If time could fold…Read more Meeting Myself There
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 19 & Epilogue
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 19 Emma's Garden Rosslyn Academy enveloped us in a safe haven of gentle healing, a tangible experience of God's Presence and tender care. However, between the adoption hearing and the verdict, in early August, the missionary family returned. Once again, we needed a place to live. Through friends of…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 19 & Epilogue
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 18
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 18 Vindication & Kindness "The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near." Isaiah 50:7 Only Mwenda and I step foot in the courthouse’s deserted hallways for our third and final…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 18
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 17
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 17 Carried Mwenda immediately jumped in his car and headed across town to where we were staying. As for us, within minutes of hanging up, my friend and driver, Michael, arrived to help us re-locate as previously scheduled. The place we were staying, much longer than originally planned, was…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 17
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 16
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 16 In the Arena “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 16
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 15
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 15 God's Hands and Feet At that point, with the failure of our second case, no one would have blamed me if I packed up and high-tailed it home. There are some who tell me they admire my courage. But, which is harder – to leave a child you consider to be…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 15
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 14
Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 14 Digging Deep Rare are reunions as sweet as the one of March 22, 2005. How and where it took place, however, added a dramatic twist – which seemed only fitting for this roller coaster story. After the wild ride of waiting for paperwork from Kakamega and text updates…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 14
Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 13
Dear readers, I am an artist and writer who has been profoundly shaped by experiences around the world. Today, I continue a series about adopting two of my four children from Kenya. To start at the beginning, please visit Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 1. .................................................................................................... Another Day in Kenya - Chapter 13 Daily…Read more Another Day in Kenya – Chapter 13
Colleen Briggs Art & Writing 