Foster Care Reflections: The Woman at The Well

As some of you may know, I run a foster care ministry. It's at the very heart of what I do. I don't blog all the time because I'm engrossed in what I do. I'm not just called to it, I love the families with all my heart. Most of the time I am ministering …

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Foster Care Reflections: Modeling The ‘I Can’

Everyone in my house has been sick and passing it around since Christmas so you know that means I'm going to get sick. I just came out of a self - induced coma where I slept something like 48hrs. "Just sleep it off ", that's kinda my motto. Today is a no school day. I'm …

Foster Care Reflections: When Thankful Isn’t The Right Word

"Everything is fine. We're all fine." I'm dying inside, but yeah, everything is fine.

Foster Care Reflections: The Village People

I am part of a village. This village is a vital piece of what makes life doable....and crazy. It's a mash-up of people who would not normally be in any kind of relationship together. Economic status is no barrier. Social status does not stop us. Having nothing in common is simply where we start. We …

Foster Care Reflections:Talking about Jesus

My son said something today that made me feel like I'm winning at this parenting thing and reminded me of what a mercy it is that we don't parent alone. Today my son's science lesson was covering the various theories about the beginning. He is very interested in physics, so he was introduced to the Big …

Foster Care Reflections: The Pushing and The Pulling

My head is so divided as I try to keep sanity in charge. I know what is happening, but it still rips my heart to pieces.This is normal the closer adoption gets, my head tells me. When he tells me I'm not his parent so he "doesn't care"- he doesn't really mean it. When he …

Foster Care Reflections: Sabbatical

We haven't loved on any new bonus babies in a couple of weeks and my heart is beginning to ache.In the beginning, it was good to allow the dust to settle. We had time to talk, to really slow down and have the heart to hearts. We had time to just be with each other. We had …

Foster Care Reflections: When it’s Time to Disrupt

I had read so many stories of families who have had to break placement and I always wondered what it would take for me to do it. Where was the line that someone could not cross? What would I feel that would make me do it? I looked at breaking placement like divorce, I was …

Foster Care Reflections: The Next Adventure…

     As soon as our grieving was over, God brought us two new angels and my heart is unimaginably full... again. As He has always been, our God is faithful to those who seek Him. He restores in us that which has been lost. For me, it was not children but it was my loving …

Foster Care Reflections: Time To Let Them Go

    This space is so empty it's as if all the oxygen has been stolen from the room. It's still so raw, I cannot even lick my wounds. Not everyone grieves in the same way, but we all grieve. We will all experience loss at some point. We all know this autopilot feeling where you cannot …