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Surrendered Hearts: An Adoption Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Trust by Lori Schumaker #SurrenderedHeartsBook #adoption
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The Surrendered Hearts Book Releases Today!

National Adoption Month and Surrendered Hearts For those of you who have been on this journey with me for awhile, you know today is release day! You’ve been our prayer warriors and cheerleaders along the way and I couldn’t have done it without you. But if you are new here, today is a big day…

Surrendered Hearts: An Adoption Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Trust by Lori Schumaker

Surrendered Hearts

An Adoption Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Trust A lifetime of knowing. Decades of praying. Years of paperwork, research, and planning. Lots of tears. And the growing of faith in the waiting. One look into a pair of sparkling brown eyes, and Lori and Bryan Schumaker fell head-over-heels in love with a beautiful…

Inner strength is the ability to go through difficult experiences in life and then allow those experiences to make them a good kind of stronger. A kind of strength that sees things through wiser eyes, deeper compassion, and a sense of knowing that a better day will come if you continue moving forward in faith with the next right step. Join us for this series about overcoming hurt, betrayal, and rejection. Together we explore strategies and insight into Biblical strategies for partnering with Jesus to overcome the hard parts of life and move forward.
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Building Inner Strength: How to Transform Your Pain into a Powerful Way Forward

Right from the start, I knew she was different. There was an inner strength about her that drew me in. Genuine love. A smile from deep beyond the surface. One that seemed to come from an overflow of authentic joy. If you were to meet her, you wouldn’t guess the challenges and heartache she’d faced….

There are often circumstances that steal our Christmas joy. These 7 tips will help you focus on Christ and reignite your spark and rediscover your joy this Christmas!
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Experience Christmas Joy Again: 7 Simple Steps to Reignite Your Spark

Christmas should be a time of joy! But there are often hard circumstances that steal our Christmas joy. These 7 tips will help you focus on Christ and rediscover your joy this Christmas!

Through our difficult roads, God teaches us to fight. to fight fiercely. For me, adoption was one of those difficult roads. 5 Things Adoption Taught Me About Fighting Fiercely - Lori Schumaker for Shannon Geuring
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5 Eye-Opening Lessons We Learned About Thriving as an Adoptive Family

Thriving as an adoptive family is hard-fought, but well worth it! It takes wisdom, but even more importantly, it takes surrender to the God who knits together families. No matter how much a family prepares, their reality will demand much more. Each child and each family is unique. Only full surrender allows us to embrace…