KDanae Reads

Well, I have to say I have succeeded in reading a lot for Adoption Awareness month, but not done so well in the writing and sharing my thoughts part. But oh well. Since my last post I have read 5 books that deal with the fatherless, ministry to children, at-risk children and youth and ways the Church can step up and make a difference. Most of them were books that I read a few years ago during some of my missions classes at LCU and some of them are ones I have gotten from various conferences. They were all great reads and I was grateful to refresh my memory of them as I read them with "older" eyes (instead of the eyes of a college student reading just to finish her homework).  One of the best ones I read was by Dr. Wess Stafford, the president of Compassion International. While not a book strictly about adoption,  Too Small to Ignore  is a book written with his story mixed in while giving the facts of what hardships children endure and what the Church can do. He was r...

Well, let's just say that the last two months have been absolutely crazy busy. And even though I have read a ton and almost non-stop, I just have been lazy and not taken the time to sit down, take a break and write. Tonight that changes. I am enjoying the quiet and coolness of the evening while trying to focus on writing.  The last two months have been filled with weddings (4 weekends in a row), church events, trips home, bonfires, post-season Cardinal baseball and lots of work. It's been good. Just very busy. But surprisingly, in the midst of all the busyness, I managed to spend a lot of time reading. In looking back, I really have no idea how I managed to read so much. And I didn't really read small books. Quite a few of them were 350+ pages long and I was breezing right through them, one after another. I enjoyed pretty much everything I read over the last two months and many of them have been added to my re-read list.  This month is Adoption Awareness month. The ty...