#hopestillwins

Laura Wilson

Dec 31, 2022
1 min

Ordinary + Extraordinary

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the...

Laura Wilson

Jul 22, 2022
1 min

Insights

We keep learning more about this girl day by day. She’s equal parts sugar and spice. Her determination amazes (and sometimes overwhelms)...

Laura

Nov 21, 2021
1 min

Not Enough

As we approach one year of Ella in our family, this feels all the more relevant. The loss and hurt and death and broken in her body and...

Laura

Sep 16, 2021
2 min

God Sees

This process has been so hard. COVID had complicated almost all of the services Ella needs. Attachment has been painfully slow. There has...

Laura

Aug 19, 2021
1 min

Love Better

We recently noticed a little boy continually asking Kai if he was related to another boy. Kai would point out who his parents were, but...

Laura

Jul 23, 2021
1 min

Connection Heals

This is reality 5% of the time. Asher and Kai were almost immediately best friends. It hasn't been the case this time around. She often...

Laura

Jul 16, 2021
1 min

Open Your Heart

You can’t open your heart to the vulnerable and defenseless and not be transformed by them. You can never unsee what you now see, unknow...

Laura

Jun 29, 2021
1 min

Be Changed

I have heard it said that adoption is not happily ever after, but a story of beauty from ashes. ⁣ Children belong in families. But this...

Laura

May 9, 2021
2 min

Dear First Moms

To the first moms of my kids,⁣ ⁣ I think of you often. I wonder what thoughts, memories and feelings you carry. I wonder if you are okay....

Laura

May 8, 2021
2 min

Compassion

Five whole months have passed since she completed our family. It’s hard to believe. Some days have felt like a literal eternity. Yet it...

Laura

Apr 30, 2021
1 min

Please Pray!

India is in a tremendous crisis. It is likely the devastation and death tolls we see are under reported. When we adopted our daughter, we...

Laura

Apr 22, 2021
1 min

He Sees

His eye has always been on her. When she and her sister were in their mother’s womb. When their mother experienced crisis. When their...

Laura

Apr 6, 2021
1 min

Siblings

These first two are one of my deepest answered prayers. Their relationship is a treasure to behold and nothing we could have created. Our...

Laura

Mar 23, 2021
2 min

Not About Me

We are slowly coming out of our four month cocooning time with Ella. We have even been to church two weeks in a row. Getting 4 kids...

Laura

Mar 16, 2021
1 min

A Strange Thank You

Thank you, orphanages, for helping me see the need. I’ll never, ever forget the faces of the children we saw. Their voices forever etched...

Laura

Feb 11, 2021
1 min

Treasure

They handed her to us. They said she was a happy child. Then they asked with piqued curiosity and confusion, you do know what is wrong...

Laura

Dec 24, 2020
2 min

Light Broke Through

This Christmas is so different. Not just the pandemic, which is making it different for us all. We’re also in this strange season of new...

Laura

Dec 13, 2020
2 min

Hope

Don’t get me wrong. She’s amazing. Adoption is incredible. God is doing unspeakably more than we could ask or imagine. But it is hard....

Laura

Dec 11, 2020
1 min

Light

We are learning there are some things the orphanage missed or did not share or maybe did not know. There are very broken pieces of her...

Laura

Dec 1, 2020
1 min

Sweet Mercy

Don’t ever get the impression that we do this because we know what we are doing or have extraordinary patience or faith or love or...