Sherrie Eldridge

Best-Selling Adoption Author

Tag: bible

  • The Forgotten Father

    The Forgotten Father

    Adoptees Are Silently Searching for Missing Birth Fathers In the majority of adoption literature, birth mothers are mentioned as the predominant loss for the adoptee. While interviewing more than 70 adoptees for a book, I learned that they think about their birth fathers as much as birth mothers. So why aren’t birth fathers honored? Why…

  • Waking Up from an “After-Death Experience”

    All hope was gone. Professionals say that eight minutes of flat lining means death. My friend flat lined for ten. This morning, a month later, I stopped by to see her. Little by little, she is remembering what she saw, when dead and when alive. “Sherrie!” she said. “Do you know what the first word…

  • Does God Still Raise the Dead?

    I never dreamed I’d see the reality of resurrection in my lifetime! However, God raised one of my friends who flat lined for 10 minutes and brought her back to life. With her permission, I will share the story. No names….just glory to the One who raised her up and gave her back to her…

  • Can Adoptees Remember Early-Life Loss?

    Can Adoptees Remember Early-Life Loss?

    Moses’ life normalizes the adopted life. He blew it like many of us, yet went on to be one of the greatest leaders of all times. Also, God called him “friend.” Moses’ First Mom, Jochebed Jochebed felt her first labor pain late in the afternoon and by nightfall she had given birth to a beautiful…

  • How Can Adoptees Know What Their Life Is Worth?

    A single thread in a tapestry Though its color brightly shine Can never see its purpose In the pattern of the grand design. And the stone that sits on the very top Of the mountain’s mighty face, Does it think it’s more important Than the stones that form the base? So how can you know…

  • Adoption Pearls from the All-Adoptee ICU

    A lesson from nature teaches us that pain is the catalyst that makes the precious pearl. Through all the tough issues adoptees work through in the All-Adoptee ICU, pearls of wisdom are formed. Here is my “take” on the pearls. How about yours? 1. Anyone can make love, but only God can create a life.…

  • An ICU for Hurting Adoptees?

    An ICU for Hurting Adoptees?

    Where can you take an adoptee for intensive help? If you go to the psych unit at the hospital, they don’t even mention adoption-related trauma as a possible issues of depression, anxiety, or self-destructive thoughts and behaviors.   There is a place, online, where adoptees can go and be with other adoptees who’ve been where…

  • Yikes…Tell the WHOLE Truth?

    Many parents who adopt are terrified that their children will someday learn about the negative aspects of their child’s birth family history. “What if my son finds out that his birth father is in prison? What if he discovers that his birth mother is a prostitute, or drug addict? What if my daughter learns that…