Tag: Orphans

• “There are some men and some women in whose company we are always at our best. While with them we cannot think mean thoughts or speak ungenerous words…

  

  …Their mere presence is elevation, purification, sanctity. All the best stops in our nature are drawn out by their intercourse, and we find a music in our souls that was never there before.” – Henry Drummond George Muller’s father was a tax collector. By the age of ten young George was an expert thief, liar…

  Adrienne Morris

  December 5, 2017

  Adoption, inspirational

  19th century, Christian Heroes, faith, George Muller, Orphans, prayer

• Anne with an “E” and the Reality of Orphans

  We all have something of the orphan in us. Rejection, loneliness and the bleak reality that we die alone color some of our darker imaginings. I’ve a soft spot for fictional orphans.  As a writer I collect broken people. I give them homes in MY BOOKS. They tend to wreak havoc. The same is true…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 23, 2017

  Adoption, books, Uncategorized

  Adoption, Anne Of Green Gables, anne with an “e”, Orphans, reactive attachment disorder

• James E. West: Orphan and Hero

  When my son was six he begged me each day not to leave him on the steps of the large Brooklyn school house. He hated his teacher. Fair enough. When the bell rang and the kindly police officer took my son’s hand and led him inside, my son looked back in panic and I’d have…

  Adrienne Morris

  December 8, 2015

  inspirational, Men, Uncategorized, United States History

  Adoption, child poverty, child welfare, heroes, history of orphanages, hope, inspirational story, Orphans