Lessons in Love | Holly Richardson

Have you ever had to let go of the perfect life you’d imagined? Holly was a nurse, and she was married with one child. She was living the life she’d imagined. Suddenly, after her second child was born, Holly learned her newborn baby had a serious health concern. Doctors told Holly her daughter’s life would be short.

It was hard for her to believe that her life was going to be different than she had imagined. She thought, “Why me? How could God do this to me?”

When Holly was pregnant with her third child, she took a class about adversity. She learned that grief and love are intimately connected. It was okay for her to grieve over her special needs child. It was normal! Many people struggle. Even Christ himself asked His Father to remove the bitter cup from Him.

One evening Holly and her husband were watching a news report on orphanages in Romania. Their eyes were opened, and their hearts overflowed with love for those children. Holly and her husband knew they needed to go to Romania and adopt a child. It was the hardest and scariest thing she’d ever done.

It wasn’t easy. They ended up adopting more than one child, and three of those five children had special needs. Holly was in sheer survival mode for the first year. They continued to adopt, and today they are proud parents of 25 children from eight different countries. Their ages range from four to thirty-one years old.

Does that sound overwhelming? Holly admits that it is overwhelming! Not everyone can adopt 20 children, but everyone can serve. What you do every day to help others matters.

Holly never regretted following her prompting to love. She learned that when she lightened the loads of others, her own load was lifted. The answer to her many questions was to love deeply and love broadly.

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