Love Without Borders

How Bold Faith Opens the Door to Embracing the Unexpected

By: Angela Braniff

Narrated by: Angela Braniff

From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven children through various methods of adoption and biological approaches, encouraging women and mothers to embrace the unique purpose that God has put in their lives.

Angela’s love for life and her family radiates through everything she does. The Braniff household includes their two biological daughters, Kennedy, 12, and Shelby 10; Rosie, 7, who was adopted from China with Down syndrome; Noah, 7, adopted from Congo; Jonah 5, adopted domestically; and finally, Ivy and Amelia, their one year old twins who were adopted as embryos, and implanted in Angela, who gave birth to them. In fact, after the book was finished, they joyfully welcomed a new baby into their home, Benjamin, through adoption, making them now a family of ten!

Love Without Borders shares Angela's relatable, humorous, and honest view of motherhood. Angela chronicles her journey to discover God’s purpose for her life. For years she walked the safe, expected path, until one day she could feel God calling her to boldly step out and follow him into new places, which led her to raise a large, non-traditional family that looked different than she ever imagined.

It was a winding path to motherhood, complete with heartbreak from failed adoptions, challenging pregnancies, and secondary infertility, but through it all Angela found the unique adventure God had for her. She has shared her family’s stories on her popular YouTube channel, This Gathered Nest, and now invites us in to go deeper and listen to where God might be calling us to go and who we’ve been tasked with loving, no matter how unusual (or just plain crazy) it may sound! The beauty of God’s plan is he uses imperfect people to bring about perfectly beautiful stories.

Overwhelmingly amazing

Even though I listened to most of these stories on Angela’s YouTube channel, listen to her piece together all of them and outline the purpose that drives her story touched my heart in a way I can’t describe.
She is not the main character here. The glory it’s clearly given to the Lord. And I can only hope my life can reflect Him 10% as it’s done in this family.
Thanks Angela, I learned a ton! Not only about love, and adoption, but about myself and God. I pray soon enough I can also be included in God’s plans for adoption of a child of His. I’m definitely not the same after this book. I only hope it gets translated to Portuguese soon, so I can share with my family.

Truly Inspirational and Inspiring

Let me start by saying Angela is one incredible woman! I could not switch this off and listened to this start to finish in one go. The story of her journey from young girl to motherhood filled me with tears (especially that proposal!) She has shone such a beautiful light on adoption and inspired many others to consider adopting too. Beautiful book, beautiful story, beautiful family. Congrats Angela, you are such a talented and incredible person!

Inspirational

Angela, You have opened my heart in a way it so desperately needed thank you for sharing your story with the world.

More than I hoped for

This is my new favorite book! I am so in awe of the heart and soul that was poured out in this story and love Angie even more now.
I literally did not put this down and am kind of sad that it’s over!

loved it!

This is an amazing story of endurance and faith. How God touches each of our lives in small and simple ways to bring about his miracles. I loved listening to Angela's story in her own words, she hass touched my mind and my heart with her beautiful family. Thank you for sharing your journey! I highly recommend this book!!