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Called to foster care…pt. 2
In February of the following year we found ourselves sitting in an informational meeting for foster care. John and the boys were super excited, but I was still hesitant. I didn’t know if I could do it. Could we navigate this with our boys, and protect their hearts? Could we love a child that may not stay the same as we loved our own kids? I knew that if we did this everything about our life was going to change. As we sat in the meeting I was really hoping to hear something that would tell us it wasn’t the right path. As the lady talked the opposite happened. The…
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Called to foster care…..
That is what a lot of people would say about how they began their journey, but I don’t know if it is really what we would have said in the beginning. Adoption had been a topic of conversation between John and I before we were even married. We were open to the idea but we weren’t sure if it was a path God would take us down. Foster care was not even a word that was in our vocabulary. Our oldest son was probably 5 or 6 when he started talking to us about his desire for us to adopt. It started off with little conversations that we would just…
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How it began….
As I sit and think about the idea of starting a blog I have to laugh. This is not a comfortable thing for me. I laugh because that has been a theme for my family the last few years. My family has been on a journey of being stretched, challenge, and being called to do the “I Nevers”. As I look back and try to determine where this season started God took me back to John 15. “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He [a]prunes…