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Tag Archives: adult adoptee

I Feel Like An Orphan

Steve Durkac Posted on December 8, 2020 by Steve DurkacDecember 8, 2020

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” but it is a very familiar feeling because as an adoptee I have known that … Continue reading →

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

Dear Step-Siblings

Steve Durkac Posted on December 2, 2018 by Steve DurkacDecember 2, 2018

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 before that transformed into information, people, and families. For myself, like all children given up … Continue reading →

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

Salvation Over I-75

Steve Durkac Posted on June 16, 2018 by Steve DurkacJune 16, 2018

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, my life took a detour from what should have been a typical mid-America working class home … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | 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 DurkacMarch 13, 2018

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 and about 8 inches high. I’ve lost track of it in one of my last … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | 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 DurkacMay 24, 2017

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 has the middle name of Irene. The mom who raised me had a brain tumor removed … Continue reading →

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

My Baby Feet

Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 23, 2017

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 born feet, the thought occurred to me that after 52 years, I now posses something … Continue reading →

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

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