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I want to share a personal email I received last week from Tim Goeglein, our vice president of external relations. Tim helps spread the word about what Focus does in and around our nation’s capital. I’ll share some thoughts after the email.
When you were last in Washington, I took you to Anacostia — the most disadvantaged part of our city.
I wanted you to go there because, so often, the image projected to our nation and the world about Washington is the power, glitz, schmooze part of it.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, faith by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Time magazine’s provocative cover story last week, “The Childfree Life,” explores why some couples are choosing to deliberately not have children and taps into a larger, worldwide trend towards smaller families.
A good portion of the piece is rooted in cultural observation and fact.
Not surprisingly, some of the causes are found in modern life. Young couples are marrying later, if at all, and instead of having children, they’re increasingly choosing to pursue college and advanced degrees and becoming more active in the work force.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
The 2013 Life and Justice Conference officially begins tomorrow at New Life Church here in Colorado Springs. I’m looking forward to participating.
The critical issues of life and justice are joined at the hip, despite what some might otherwise suggest. By embracing and addressing the life issue the cause of justice is advanced and by embracing the need to do justice in the culture, the cause of life is likewise lifted up.
So what is the conference all about?
Topics: Current Events Tags: adoption, kids, parenting, pro-life by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
In honor of National Adoption Month, five wonderful and inspirational quotes:
Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
– Mother Teresa
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, kids, pro-life by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
It’s common to wax nostalgic for the past, to suggest that the “good old days” weren’t just good – but great. If only we could turn back the clock, so the logic goes, all would be well.
The only problem with such a theory is that it’s just so often not true. Case in point:
One hundred years ago, on April 14, 1911, the following headline appeared in the New York Times:
5,000 HAPPY ORPHANS AT A CIRCUS TREAT
Youngsters from Many Institutions in the City Have Their Annual Merry Day
The article went on to highlight just who these orphans were, referring to them as “little waifs and strays, orphans and half orphans” who had their one “happy day” of the year at the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, faith, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
What if Joanne Schieble hadn’t said “yes” ?
What if Paul and Clara Jobs had said “no” ?
Joanne almost didn’t. The Jobs almost weren’t even asked.
Have you heard the story?
Steve Jobs is being lauded and remembered as the pioneer he truly was, a remarkable man with an amazing mind who changed the way the world communicates.
By now you’ve probably read or heard that Mr. Jobs was adopted as an infant. Born in 1955 to an unwed mother, Joanne Schieble, his life took an incredible turn the very night he made his grand entrance.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, pro-life by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
What’s the main cause of teenage rage in America?
Is it a matter of poor parenting – or no parenting at all?
Writing in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan drew a chilling parallel between fatherless homes and the riots we’re seeing in England, as well as the “flash mob” incidents that have been occurring with increasing frequency here in the U.S.
In regard to what to do about it, Ms. Noonan reflected:
The normal, old response to an emerging problem such as this has been: The government has to do something.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, family, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Last Friday’s USA Today ran a rather bleak cover story. Framed by old black-and-white photos of cute little children, the headline read: “In Many Neighborhoods, Kids Are Only a Memory.”
Of course, as birth rates continue to decline in America, neighborhood demographics are bound to adjust. But the shift is even more pronounced in some areas for no other reason that children tend to attract other children. Parents of youngsters are drawn to certain areas because of good schools, access to parks and the fact that adults like to live around friends in similar seasons of life.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
You may remember the name Hannah Strege, a delightful girl who has appeared on Focus on the Family radio several times. Her mom and dad, Marlene and John, have the distinction of being the first couple in the world to have given birth to a baby through embryo adoption.
Hannah, thus, is forever known as “Snowflake #1.”
Why a “snowflake”?
After Mr. and Mrs. Strege approached the Nightlight Christian Adoption Agency (for info on embryo adoption with them, click here.) to facilitate the complicated embryo adoption process, the pioneering couple was at a loss as to how to describe what they were doing.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I wrote last time about the media’s obsession with bad and sensational news. Sadly, the headlines are so often dominated by negative developments even though the world is full of beauty, wonder and yes, miracles. So much of life is based upon things unfolding behind the scenes outside our view. Our days, much more than we fully appreciate and acknowledge, are guided and controlled by God’s invisible hand.
In other words, what we see is not all there is.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.Home
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