Beauty in Hard Places — Learning to Slow Down & Enjoy the Journey

Shortly before I had my first daughter nearly twenty-one years ago, the nesting instinct hit full force. As my cleaning, organizing, and downsizing took over, I was fully convinced nesting is a very real phenomenon pregnant women face. Fast-forward twenty-one years and four more kids and I am once again in that nesting place…this time preparing to bring our adopted son home from an orphanage in Haiti.

Just thinking about his homecoming gives me butterflies. Not because the adoption has been a nearly five year process and there’s finally light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, but because I know that I am so close to bringing home a child that has come from a very broken place—a place where abandonment, neglect, sickness, malnutrition, and even possible abuse are very real.


Tammy Darling
Tammy Darling
Tammy Darling is the author of 1,400 published articles and two books, "And She Danced" and "While We Wait: Devotions for the Adopting Parent." She writes from her home in rural Pennsylvania.

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