(Happenings in January 2020). A couple of weeks ago, Natalia participated in a support group at their hospital for people like her living...

(Happenings from January 2020). Natalia has asked more about the topic of forgiveness. I reflected more on my forgiveness toward Natalia ...

(Happenings in January 2020). Natalia is introducing me to more of her friends from her c-community. It is so helpful that many of these ...

(Happenings in January 2020). Natalia seems to be doing so well ever since she found the c-community. She has decided not to return to Ig...

(Happenings in December 2019). During my short trip to Israel, the birth family came to gather and celebrated the New Year with food, snow...

(Happenings in December 2019). When certain situations happen in life it forces us to look deep, to really get real, with ourselves, with...

(Happenings in December 2019). Natalia was found and brought back home. She did have a black eye and I joked with her saying that she loo...

My family recently celebrated my Gotcha day. Eighteen years ago, I was adopted into a wonderful family on June 3, 2002. My parents helped...

Happenings in December 2019). As many people now know that the journey with my birth family began in October of 2019. This story actually...

(Happenings in December 2019). My birth father, Sergey, has now reached out to me. It was instigated by Irina who has already been in con...

(Happenings in December 2019). Nothing has to change, but then with a different perspective (of a million possible perspectives), everyth...

(Happenings in December 2019). Many of the thoughts I’ve had and my learnings have either been directly inspired by God or by faithful pe...

(Happenings in November 2019). Another time, I awoke in the middle of night with a thought weighing heavily on my mind about Natalia, “sh...

(Happenings in November 2019). As soon as I think I have it all figured out, the next moment I don’t, and I never will. The Lord has give...

(Happenings in November 2019). Natalia and I have a special bond that is not tied to past connection because we never met. There is so mu...

(Happenings in October 2019). One day I told Natalia, “every time you share with me, you teach me something, you give me perspective. Ple...

(Happenings in October 2019). Before we knew it, three hours passed. Once again, the Lord brought thoughts to my memory so constantly in ...

(Happenings in October 2019). I want to share these thoughts on behalf of Natalia. We have learned that translation is not perfect, but i...

(Happenings in October 2019). I have come to realize that I certainly am incapable of “fixing” the situation and it would not be good to ...

(Happenings in October 2019). I had such an intimate moment with Natalia. We Skype together today for the first time one-on-one. I told h...