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Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

By Marty Walden · 37 Comments

  For the last three years I have traveled to Orlando, FL, to meet up with some amazing women who are adoptive and foster moms. These women are uniquely drawn together through the bond of parenting wounded children. Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD, and for many of our kids, just one of their diagnoses) is unlike any other parenting… Read More

Filed Under: adopted children, adoption, adoption story, family, mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, RAD Tagged With: adoption, Mother's Day, motherhood, Simple Gift Sunday

Josh Groban “O Holy Night”: Simple Gift Sunday

Josh Groban “O Holy Night”: Simple Gift Sunday

By Marty Walden · 8 Comments

My husband told me recently that I run when I’m sad. Usually I would argue with him, but this truth settled into my spirit. He was right. I don’t like those close to me to see me grieve. Grief stings. It isolates. It takes the most ordinary day and turns it into pain. I know this because I know grief…. Read More

Filed Under: faith, Grief, mother, nursing home, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday

Women Encouraging Each Other

Women Encouraging Each Other

By Marty Walden · 12 Comments

I am at the Southern Bloggers Conference this weekend but wanted to make sure you know I’m thinking about you! Here are some words of encouragement from one woman to another (written originally here). There are some things that only time and perspective can teach you. If your mom is still alive (or you are blessed with a relationship with… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Grief, mother

Grief Revisited

Grief Revisited

By Marty Walden · 30 Comments

(family picture from Easter 2012) I don’t want to write about grief, and I certainly don’t want to experience it. Yet it’s a part of my life and the process of letting go of those I’ve loved and lost. I feel like I have written quite a bit about it on my blog, but it is a subject that I… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Grief, mother

Paul Baloche “He Knows My Name”: Simple Gift Sunday

By Marty Walden · 2 Comments

I wanted to share a song that I love, one that has come to have special meaning to me. I sang it at church for Father’s Day this year and it was all I could do not to get choked up. My father passed away in 2009 and my mom in 2010 through tragic circumstances. It helps me to remember… Read More

Filed Under: faith, mother, music, Simple Gift Sunday

Mother’s Day Thoughts

Mother’s Day Thoughts

By Marty Walden · 1 Comment

Warning: have kleenex handy! Letter from a Mother to a Daughter:  “My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: “You said the same thing… Read More

Filed Under: Grief, mother

Encouragement from One Woman to Another

Encouragement from One Woman to Another

By Marty Walden · 7 Comments

There are some things that only time and perspective can teach you. If your mom is still alive (or you are blessed with a relationship with another woman that is important to you) I want to share some things that I am learning only through retrospect. My sister passed away suddenly in 2000. My mom passed away under adverse conditions… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Grief, mother

Eulogy for my Mom

By Marty Walden · 8 Comments

Eulogy for Edith Webster Purvis, Feb. 28, 1925 – Dec. 24, 2010 My mom set before me an example of a faith-filled life. We did not have theological discussions or pray together, but the way she lived her life showed me the importance of God to her. She grew up in an age where you didn’t talk openly about many… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Grief, mother

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