“You are stranded in a culture where you can’t trust many, you don’t fully understand the language, and you can’t read the signs—and at the same time you try not to let on that you can’t do those things.”

“Imagine you’re visiting a place where there’s little to no English spoken and you wake up one day to find that the group you went with has all gone home and you are left there alone.”

“I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of?”

“…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand.”

“But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother.”

“We, who have so much, need to reach out to the orphans of this world and show them the care, hope, and love they deserve.”

“Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”