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Tag Archives: Adoption

I Feel Like An Orphan

Steve Durkac Posted on December 8, 2020 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

With the October 21, 2020 passing of my mother, I am beginning to feel what I’ve heard expressed so many times by adult children following the death of their last living parent. I am feeling the sentiment expressed by surviving children who say, “I feel like an orphan.” For me, it’s been over six-weeks of “I feel like an orphan” … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, I feel like an orphan, John 14:18, orphan

The Mom I Knew

Steve Durkac Posted on November 6, 2020 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

My mother passed away on October 21, 2020 after a long battle with Alzheimer/Dementia. I wrote about my mother and the smile I miss at my previous blog post titled Irene H. Durkac. Her Catholic funeral mass was conducted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 in Rossford, Ohio and the funeral home’s obituary was published a few days prior to that … Continue reading →

Posted in Bereavement Care, Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, Alzheimer, Catholic Charities Adoption Agency, Dementia, Fargo, grief, Irene H Durkac, John 14:27, North Dakota, Ohio, Rossford

Irene H. Durkac

Steve Durkac Posted on October 21, 2020 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

My younger sister and I sat in the living room of our childhood home where my mother laid in her hospice bed. As we talked quietly, trying not to disturb our mother’s rest, I could see my mom open her eyes and fix her gaze toward me with a slight smile. I smiled back and continued the conversation with my … Continue reading →

Posted in Bereavement Care, Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, All Saints Catholic Church, Alzheimer, Dementia, Durkac, grief, hospice, Irene H Durkac, Louis S Durkac, motherhood, Ohio, Rossford, Soos, Sujkowski-Walker Funeral Home

Louis S. Durkac

Steve Durkac Posted on September 4, 2019 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

My Dad, Louis S. Durkac, died this morning, September 4, 2019. He was 91 years old and the adopted father of 5 adopted children, and he himself was adopted. He died just 2 days shy of his 67th wedding anniversary with my Mom, Irene, whom he leaves behind in a fight against dementia. I am the middle child of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bereavement Care, Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged adoptee, Adoption, All Saints Catholic Church, Dad, Ft. Meigs Cemetery, grief, James 4:14, John 1:12, Louis S Durkac, Obituary, Ohio, Rossford, Sujkowski-Walker Funeral Home, Tribute

The Grandma Story

Steve Durkac Posted on May 21, 2019 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

In 1923, my grandmother, Mary, was asked to be the maid-of-honor for her best friend’s wedding. As the wedding approached in her hometown near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mary wondered what the best man might be like. She had heard that Lou was also a recent immigrant from Czechoslovakia and also an available bachelor, but he wouldn’t be arriving until just before … Continue reading →

Posted in Marriage Notes, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, conflict, Durkac, Family, marriage, relationships, stories

Dear Step-Siblings

Steve Durkac Posted on December 2, 2018 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

We share the same mom, at birth anyway, but her influence was just as intentional upon my life as with yours. You experienced her influence through the awesome privilege of knowing her, loving her, holding her, building a bond with her, while I have only had gratitude for her. That gratitude is all I carried with me for 54 years … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family, step-family

Salvation Over I-75

Steve Durkac Posted on June 16, 2018 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

Pastor Steve Durkac’s Personal Testimony… I grew up as one of five adopted children and it was my story of adoption that most influenced my faith in Jesus as my personal Savior and here is how… As a teenager in the cold snowy, over-cast, small Northeast Ohio town of Rossford, during the heavy metal punk-rock era of the late 70’s, … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Christian testimony, Lime City Road, miraculous conversation, Ohio, personal testimony, Rossford, salvation, Steve Durkac, stories, witness

A Sailboat

Steve Durkac Posted on March 13, 2018 by Steve DurkacAugust 20, 2023

When I left my pastorate with a church an Adventist church in Aiken, South Carolina in the 90’s, I was given a small gift of a marble and gold metal sailboat that read “A man that walks with God always gets to his destination.” It sat in my study on a shelf, from move to move, about 10 inches long … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Aiken, Aiken SDA Church, Carolina Conference, Family, sailboat, South Carolina, Steve Durkac

79 Years Later

Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

Yesterday, May 23, 2017 would have been my birth mother’s 79th birthday, had she not died in 1990. I was thinking earlier today that when I get to heaven I will have two mothers – the mother that adopted me and the mother that birthed me. Interestingly, the mom who raised me is named Irene and the mom who birthed me … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family, Jeanette Thoemke

My Baby Feet

Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

I finally got my baby feet. What I mean is, I just received the card stock paper where the nurses at St. John’s Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota inked my feet, shortly after being born on October 1, 1962 and made an impression of my baby feet with ink. As I looked at the paper with the impression of my new … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family

3 Scriptures for Adoptees

Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacAugust 9, 2023

I am an adoptee, and you can read my personal testimony to learn how that impacted my conversion and sustaining faith in Jesus Christ and His word. Here I wish to share 3 Scripture verses that I believe speak to the real significance of every individual who may be wrestling with their identity because of being an adopted child.   Jeremiah … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations, Recent Posts | Tagged adoptee, Adoption, Bible

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