“We Needed Them, and They Needed Us”: How Adoption Brought the Sherman Family from Two to Four
Amanda Sherman will candidly tell you this about herself—she is a doer. If there’s anything in her power that she can do to get something...
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Worth the Wait
Proof that a delay is not a denial.
Worth the Wait is a collection of stories of people whose greatest dreams, hopes, and aspirations didn't necessarily happen when they expected them to or how they expected them to - but when they arrived, it was worth the wait.
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Brooke and Logan Cox: “I’m Just Thankful”
Well, friends, much has happened since I wrote my last “Worth the Wait” post. Aside from the obvious (a global pandemic), my writing...
The Orrs: “I Thank God I Didn’t Settle”
From the outside looking in, Amanda Myers had it all. Young, beautiful, and brilliant, last September she was a successful lawyer living...
For those, like me, who struggle with being still
If you’re like me, your pre-COVID-19 life was overwhelmingly busy. From dusk until dawn I was running to this meeting and that lunch and...
The Showalters: What’s Meant To Be Will Always Find A Way
In the fall of 2017, Marc Showalter and Leslie Banahan had known one another for 30 years. In those three decades, they had played many...
Hayley Barber deShazo, Miss Alabama 2016: Dreams come true – literally
The night before the then Hayley Barber won Miss Alabama after five years of vying unsuccessfully for the crown, she had a dream that a...
And the bride was 36: Part 4
This is the fourth and final installment in the “And the bride was 36” series – one I’ve immensely enjoyed writing. I saved my favorite...
And the bride was 36: Part 3
This is the third part in a four-part series profiling four best friends – Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Serena Williams, Amal Clooney, and the...
And the bride was 36: Part 2
This is the second part in a four-part series profiling four best friends – Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Serena Williams, Amal Clooney, and the...
And the bride was 36: Part 1
So, um, I don’t know if you know this about me – but I’m someone who is looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming,...
The Schells: More Love Than They Ever Imagined
I love a good love story. This right here? This is a good love story. And maybe my favorite part of a good love story is how two lives,...
Jared Watson, Now a Rising M3: ‘You Will Not Get Into Medical School’
Worth the Wait is a blog about dreams being delayed, not denied. Many times, I tell stories of couples who were a little older when they...
The Wrays: Sometimes, in the Middle of an Ordinary Life, Love Gives You a Fairytale
Writer’s Note: Back in the summer of 2017, I had my own business, Stories Worth Telling, where – among other things – I wrote about love...
Just In Case You Need This
This unexpectedly landed in my email inbox today from one of my best friends. I needed it. Maybe you do, too. On His Plan for Your Life...
Chelsey Stephenson: In Full Bloom
Writer’s Note: This blog is about more than just love stories – it is about dreams being delayed outside of just the desire for marriage....
The Dawsons: Two Paths Meant to Cross
It has been an exorbitantly long Tuesday at work and, as I leave to go meet Kevin and Susan Dawson for drinks at Five – a hip restaurant...
The Twiners: When God Writes Your Love Story
As I write this, it is Friday, December 21. My Christmas break, a blessed four-day weekend, has started. I kind of want to watch the rest...
The Wilsons: Magic in the Unexpected
It has been over 40 years since one of his future wife’s girlfriends gave Bob Wilson the phone number of Gina DeVictor that weekend in...
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