The Beauty in Bravery

Over the next few weeks, we will be doing some #flashbackfriday posts to feature some of our wonderful posts from the past.
Here is a beautiful story of love, adoption, and courage.

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Written by Bethany Ramsey

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What makes someone brave? Wouldn’t it be fair to say that it’s someone who posesses or exhibits courage? I believe that there is outrageous beauty in bravery. Often what causes us to be brave is anything but beautiful. An illness or disease, a frightening new season of life, obstacles we must overcome to accomplish something…all of these are situations that call the endurer to be courageous, and this is where the beauty lies- in moving through.

“Special needs,” “mentally challenged,” “disabled,” “abnormal”…all of these terms, in addition to several more, have been used to describe my son. He was born a twin, too early, and had brain trauma which resulted in a 3 month stay in the NICU of a tiny village in central Ukraine. We knew nothing of his existence until 2016, when we received a picture of a tiny little boy who needed help…

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