Finally!
After waiting and waiting patiently [mostly]. Our house was finally put on the open and available status for foster and adoptive placements. We got 3 different calls in only 4 days. I have been chomping at the bits feeling like there are all these kids who need help...let me help...why aren't you letting me help....we have been ready and waiting. It is God's time. I believe we will have a full house soon. Through the calls I have learned so much about how God has changed my husbands heart. I have always been the more "open minded" one of the two of us. He set an age group and really wanted to stick with it 3-8. Which I do feel that this age group would be best for everyone since we are 28 and 30 and we don't want to be too close in age to our adoptive kids, but we got a call for a teenage girl and her baby. I immediately turned it down without asking very many questions. When I got off the phone, my husband said "maybe we can help her, she might have no where else to go, lets call back and ask more questions". So we did. We did realize that she was already staying with someone and it wasn't an emergency situation and that if she moved in we wouldn't be able to take our adoptive placements. So I felt peace. If I wouldn't have called back it would still be eating me inside. Then Eli said "whoever God puts in front of us we can help". Wow not the same husband! So then we talked about getting a different house that can accommodate us to help more people. So pray for us.....we are ready to change everything. Just waiting for God to tell us who, what, where and when. I found this on someone else's blog but I thought it was really powerful and I wanted to share it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoicm4wnQ4c
Also a little side note....I am so very proud of Jackson! We had a little girl stay with us for the day so that her foster parent's could get a break. Jackson understood that this girl had a rough life and what being a foster kid meant. He always prays with me for the kids. As you know kids are so selfish. They have there prize possessions and for the most part they think the world revolves around them. He has this doodle board which he is the only one "aloud" to touch it. He has never willingly let his sister use it, or even his friends for that matter. As soon as we introduced him to the girl he ran off, grabbed his doodle board and handed it to her. She would have never even known that it existed. He said "here you go you can use this whenever you want"! I know this won't always be the case and my kids will probably need lots of encouragement sharing there mom, dad and toys with others. Eli and I were almost brought to tears by this. If the only thing I am able to teach him is to put others before himself and to love orphans...I will be a very proud Mama! Read more...
