Could The Third Time Be The Charm?
11:00 am today - received a call from our social worker asking if we would like to become foster parents to a baby boy born yesterday. He also has an older brother already in foster care who is almost 2. This older brother would be transitioned into our home as well.We said yes.
For all intents and purposes, these two children may be returned to their birth parents someday. The parents are slowly following their case plan. Of course, you never know. The children have been "labeled/categorized" as "concurrent planning" - meaning they now want them in a foster home that will adopt them should that option become available. The important thing to keep in mind is that adoption may never become an option here. But we said yes anyway.
No situation is perfect, and "ideal" always seems to exist only in our heads.
It's Christmas time, and these kids need a nice warm and loving place to call home for now. We have more than enough love and space and resources to make that happen.
Yes, we are setting ourselves up to get hurt again. But each time we do this we learn valuable lessons. We grow a little but, change a little bit, become more patient in some ways and more impatient in other ways. But the bottom line is that every time we do this, we do the Lords work. No one else can do this job. We used to have orphanages and children treated like animals lying in metal cribs with few workers to pick them up and comfort them.
12:05 - just got a call - worker on her way - will update soon - please pray!!!
Love you all so much!
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 12/13/2005 11:53:00 AM
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