I needed some time to deal with the aftermath of emotions that came after I posted all that I did about going through the miscarriages, failed adoption placement, beautiful adoptions of my children and the loss of Anna.  I really needed to plug my way through it and just get it out of my head.  But after doing that, for many nights, I kept waking up in the middle of the night, with the song "Glory Baby" by Watermark running through my head.

And I thought about coming in and writing about the effects of this "grief" even now.  But honestly, I am so much more than the sum of my past experiences. You know?  And I feel like if I stay in this place of deep emotional goo, that eventually - you - my brand new readers, will get frightened and run away.  After all, who can handle reading gut wrenching things with almost each post?

So, I took time away, just to get still before the Lord and just rest my brain and my heart in that regard.  Not to squish down the feelings, but to give them their proper release.  Does that make sense?

Besides, I'm normally a jovial person.  I have quite a quirky sense of humor.  To show you what I mean, I just had to borrow this delightful snippet from a newspaper clipping I saw a few days ago on a blog called "Jesus. Woman. Words." (Hey Tracy!)