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    God, Are You Nice or Mean?: Trusting God … After the Orphanage
    God, Are You Nice or Mean?: Trusting God … After the Orphanage
    God, Are You Nice or Mean?: Trusting God … After the Orphanage
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    God, Are You Nice or Mean?: Trusting God … After the Orphanage

    By Debra Delulio Jones, MEd

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    Through a journey of joys, tears, struggle, and hopelessness, Debra Delulio Jones found herself shaking her fist in the air and screaming, God, are you nice or mean?

    Debra and her husband, Alan, believed they were following Gods will when they adopted Dane from an orphanage in Romania in 1991. Scars of communism left their mark on this infant, and Debra searched for many years for answers for her troubled son. She found some answers, but what she didnt expect to find was that her relationship with God was much like that of an orphaned child who didnt really trust her adopted heavenly father.

    Dane didnt know how to trust the love of his parents due to his early abandonment and attachment issues. In his confusion he would say, Mommy, are you nice or mean? As she learned ways to connect to her son, Debra realized a twenty year course in clinging to God paralleled her parenting journey. She came to understand that her doubts about God were rooted in fear and pain, just like her sons maladaptive behaviors.

    As an adoptive mother in the role of healing parent, she gained insight into knowing God as her healer through lessons she learned in her relationship with Dane. In her transparent and humorous way, Debra shares how she went from living as a spiritual orphan to a trusting daughter in her daily walk with God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMay 18, 2012
    ISBN9781449748241
    God, Are You Nice or Mean?: Trusting God … After the Orphanage
    Author

    Debra Delulio Jones, MEd

    Debra Delulio Jones is a wife, mother, educator, writer, and speaker. Her work includes over twenty years of experience with special needs children. She has a Master of Education degree from Texas Womans University. For years, she felt overwhelmed and ill-equipped to manage the maladaptive and disruptive behavior of her son, Dane. Through a rich partnership with researchers at the TCU Institute of Child Development, Debra and her family have overcome tremendous obstacles. Visit her website at www.parentingadopteescantrust.com. Debra lives with her husband, Alan, in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. She enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her family.

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