orphans Archives | These Three Remain

07Sep201508Sep2015

Open Hearts, Open Doors

Erica Hale Faith abortion, aylan, faith in action, foster care, orphans, planned parenthood, syrian refugees, the lulu tree 2 Comments

What does it take for what we see with our eyes to make it to our hearts? The news these days, the things our eyes have taken in…I can barely type the words. I saw the men on their knees, chins bravely raised to the knife of ISIS. The children, “married” to men three times […]

19Jul201218Mar2015

The Dream

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing faith, foster care, grief, orphans 1 Comment

Last night I dreamed I found you and you had not changed you were there broken on the floor wrestling with the same chemical demons and they were winning still but I had changed and I took your face between my hands and when I looked into your eyes all the past was gone and […]

18Apr201218Mar2015

Sand Dollars and Broken Glass

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, foster care, grief, orphans 10 Comments

photo from Big Box of Art It’s been four months now. Four months since our lives tipped over, spilled out, righted again and left us with a new equilibrium, left us seeking a new balance. A sweet sister in Christ gave a talk this week about Hannah, it left me thinking. Thinking of those childless […]

15Mar201228Oct2015

Planning a Baby Shower for a Chinese Adoption

Erica Hale Uncategorized adoption, baby shower, international adoption, orphans 9 Comments

Last month I had the privilege of hosting a baby shower for a sweet friend whose family is adopting a precious little girl from an orphanage in China. They are, in fact, in China right now…Godspeed, friends! Praying that your travels are safe and that nothing comes between you and the joy of meeting your […]

19Jan201220Sep2015

What I couldn’t write about

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, foster care, orphans 5 Comments

Please forgive the silence. Some wounds beg to make their way to paper, journal pages soaking up the hurt and exposing it in neat rows of ink-on-white. Sometimes putting pen to paper puts thoughts and fears in perspective, rows written and captured to rectangle page, tamed by the writing. And some things escape words altogether, […]

17Mar201110May2018

This is how it happened…Part 4 (building)

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, foster care, orphans 4 Comments

Please forgive the silence…this last post in the series weighed heavy and I felt I couldn’t move forward until I was finished with this part of the recent past. But each time I sat down to write, I found I couldn’t find the words…This is a continuation of a post started here. The story is […]

16Feb201110May2018

This is how is happened, Part 3 (Let it begin with me)

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, foster care, orphans 2 Comments

Can you bear with me through this just a little longer? I struggle to write about the days I’m sharing with you and yet I also struggle when I don’t write. There is pain here but there is also beauty, there is suffering but there is also redemption. Sometimes I ask myself why I am […]

09Feb201110May2018

How it happened, part 2 (made to be broken)

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering, Uncategorized foster care, orphans 3 Comments

This is a continuation of a series started with this post. This situation is unique, but our world is full of hurting people, families in need, children who are displaced, orphaned, or in need of loving arms to care for them. There are many ways to help…open your home to foster care or adoption. Give […]

26Jan201110May2018

This is how it happened

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering, Uncategorized faith, foster care, orphans 7 Comments

Part One The Thanksgiving feast is almost over, traces of wine in crystal glasses line the counter by the sink, dishes stacked high that I vow not to think about until morning teeter precariously and roasting pans are soaking and the turkey is safe in the fridge. We are sitting together amid crumbs of […]

24Sep201010Jul2014

Pray Them Home!

Erica Hale Uncategorized faith, orphans 3 Comments

Remember this family? The family who was raising money to go to Ukraine and bring home their precious daughters, two beautiful orphans with Down Syndrome? An update is long overdue. First of all, the baby’s little heart was operated on successfully at a hospital in Ukraine. Praise God! All the little bumps in the road […]