Christ follower, YA author, cheerleader for saving sex for marriage, advocate for adoptees and adoption reform, host of the following blogs: "Waiting Matters...Because YOU Matter" and "Slices of Real Life" and "A Doorstep Baby's Search for Answers."
Author: Beth Steury
Mystery solved: The Next Steps . . .
While my parents had years to ponder my “foundling” beginnings, to conjure up scenarios about the who, the when, the why, I have had but a few months to imagine the details surrounding my being left on a …
The Final Piece of the Adoption Puzzle
from March 10, 2017 Two weeks ago today it happened. A new, very close match popped up on my Ancestry.com DNA results. Admittedly obsessed with checking our results daily, somehow neither my daughter nor I had checked for new …
The adoption puzzle pieces fall into place
from November 29, 2016 For the first time in my life, I celebrated my November 14thbirthday with 99% assurance of my birthmother’s identity. Thanks to the DNA testing results from Ancestry.com paired with the expertise and diligence …
The mystery unfolds . . .
from November 3, 2016 Most days I don’t think about it at all. It’s just a part of who I am. An accepted part. From a very early age—as long as I can remember—I concluded that whoever gave birth …
They need a mom
from July 27, 2016 A couple weeks back, as I made the first swath across the front yard with the mower, several young men piled out of a couple of vehicles at the neighbor’s house. Cars continued …
Unraveling an adoption mystery
from October 12, 2016 When my daughter tested her DNA with an Ancestry.com, Christmas-gifted kit this past January, it was mostly to uncover her ethnicity and to hopefully add branches to the family tree she’s painstakingly built …
One site for everything!
I hope your 2018 is off to an awesome start. I'm happy to announce that all my blog posts will soon reside on ONE site. As a follower of "Waiting Matters . . . Because YOU Matter", …
The Making of a Family
from August 2016 I have always known that I was adopted as an infant. Same with my three younger brothers. Before we could truly grasp what it meant to be “adopted”, we knew we had been adopted. …
GUEST POST: Why Saving Sex for Marriage Still Matters
Yes! YES! Yes! As I finished reading this excellent article by John Diff, originally published here, I knew I had to share it with you. Thank you, John, for being a fellow 'cheerleader' for saving sex for marriage. Because, …
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“But everyone else is doin’ it. Why should I wait?”
It really seems like that some days, doesn’t it? Almost no one you know is saving sex for marriage. Few if any of your friends think it matters. The characters in movies and on TV aren’t concerned. …
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