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    A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption
    A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption
    A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption
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    A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption

    By Julie Holmquist

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    Are you considering or entering the adoption or foster care process? A Call to Love joins you in your journey, offering spirit-filled wisdom and encouragement through the first year with a new child. Devotional exercises will equip you to record your thoughts and emotions. You will also receive spiritual insights from many adoptive parents, including stories from people who have adopted from the foster-care system.

    As parents, we never know what to expect. That is all too true for many adoptive parents whose children are more prone to battle mental illness. Don’t struggle alone! Through a variety of stories, you will receive strength and encouragement so you can seek appropriate help as needed.

    Author Julie Holmquist guides parents along the journey and vulnerably unpacks the struggles and joys of her own adoption stories. A Call to Love helps you fully prepare both emotionally and spiritually for the path God may be calling you to walk.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateMay 8, 2018
    ISBN9781684280483
    A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption

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      I appreciated the author's vulnerability. The mix of hard and hopeful stories kept the book from being too dark as some adoption books can be. I do recommend this book to those considering or in the midst of adoption.

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