adopt a cause!
erin & i have put together a golf team to help raise money for Miriam's Promise, an adoption agency here in the nashville / middle tennessee area, next monday. they provide a full service of counseling for pregnant mothers, of all ages, to help them prepare for motherhood. if adoption becomes a choice then they will work with the families on both sides. two families at my church have children they adopted through miriam's promise & the stories i have heard from debbie (the director) are just so compelling you know that they are doing great work.
if you, my blogging community, would feel so compelled to support miriam's promise by supporting our little golf group we would be ever so thankful. i don't know how, but maybe i will live blog a golf event... er, i'll post a bunch of pictures in a recap. note: that might be worth checking out as erin has yet to play on the golf course, she has taken lessons though, and has a decent swing.
below is a letter our friend brian, erin & myself put together for some friends and family. email me to let me know if you would like to donate and i will get you "official" paper pieces.
Miriam's Promise sounds like a worthy agency, as is your commitment. My family supports a similar agency in our town, but substitute "celebrity" football and soccer for the foursomes. It's one of our most rewarding and life-affirming communities.
The mention of motherhood brought to mind another mother, Boothe Finley, who lives in Brentwood. Her community is mourning the loss of daughter Copeland who died a week after birth. Boothe has blogged about taking Copeland to term, despite her knoweldge of the baby's fatal disease. Her words, and those of her readers, are a remarkable, heart-rending testament of faith. I mention this should you care to share this further, add them to your own prayers, or both. Find them here: http://conorbootheandgirls.blogspot.com Perhaps there's some connection between Miriam's future and Copeland's legacy.
Posted by: barbarella | October 01, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Correction: Farley, not Finley.
Posted by: barbarella | October 01, 2007 at 11:39 AM