• Foster Care Updates,  Lessons along the way

    Call from a social worker….

    Calls from a social worker are always on some level unnerving. No matter how many you have had or what is going on in the case you are always on some level bracing yourself for the unknown.  The funny thing is we all know we can’t control what is said, or how it unravels. That yucky gut wrenching feeling where you just want to come unhinged is very real. Some call it nerves, some anxiety and fear, but I know in some way we have all had that feeling. Today was one of those phone calls. Really nothing concrete or definitive was said, but just another piece of an unknown…

  • Lessons along the way

    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…