Wonder of Wonders, Miracle of Miracles Whenever I share a journey of one of the Fertile Heart Moms and Dads who birthed her baby through adoption, I think of the lines from Fiddler on the Roof, “…of all God’s miracles large and small, the most miraculous one of all, is the one I thought would […]

The Visionary Mama in us, is often, very often—I’d even say, most often— born through reaching the tipping point of frustration, grief, anger. Those less welcome responses in us, will either nail down the doors of the orphanage, or throw them wide open. The Orphan gets overwhelmed by inconvenient emotional reactions to whatever shows up in our […]

 Who is She? I would like to turn off all news channels, go hiking on this lovely day before my birthday. I would like to erase from memory that image of a river of blood which one of the witnesses of the Paris massacre described seeing from the window of his apartment. But She is […]

The miscarriage conversation is meant to continue… A couple of weeks after I posted the blog about the power of miscarriages to enlarge our capacity for grieving, comes the news of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan’s pregnancy. The lovely image of the couple celebrating  their joyous news after three pregnancy losses, streams encouragement to all who  endured similar heartbreak. As I said […]