Cara Fuller Engelbrecht

“People who don’t recognize race as a reality shouldn’t adopt black children. They are going to do more damage to the child than good! We don’t live in a color-blind society. We don’t live in a melting pot. Race is our reality. It defines our interaction. It needs to be accepted.”
― Rita J. Simon, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

“we miss the joy of new seasons when we continue grieving the old ones.”
― Heather Meadows, Transforming Tragedy: An Inspiring Story of Changing Painful to Powerful

“The scan of the child who had been through trauma looked like Swiss cheese. Almost all of their brain activity occurs in the “fight-flight-or-freeze” part of the brain, with little activity in the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that allows us to think and process rationally.”
― Jennie Lynn Owens, Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self

“Woodberry’s research gave conclusive evidence that, for the last three hundred years, missionaries have been the most significant factor in creating healthy societies.”
― Eugene Bach, Jesus in Iran