People ask me all the time how we can do foster care when we don't know how long the children will be with us. Especially recently, because our current foster child has been with us for over a year and people are curious what will happen to her and if she'll remain in our family or not. I can't blog about specifics in her case, but what Julie blogged about fits right into my heart for foster/adoption.
Julie and her husband Mark have 11 children, most of whom are adopted. This is an excerpt from Julie's Blog on Saturday, August 20:
"It can be a tough place to be...being so in love with a child and yet have such love for his birthfamily. But, I think that is what raising someone else's child is all about. The battle within came in wanting his birthmom to succeed in her fight but also longing for him to stay...fearing the day that he may leave...but always knowing that our time with him could be temporary. Children do not belong to one family or another...they all belong to God. That is another paradox in adoption...while we seek to "claim" them we also stay keenly aware of that fact that they are not ours to claim. Each night when we tuck them into bed, we give them back to the Lord. And each morning we ask our Lord to guide us as we take care of his children. We knew from the day we received the first call-- that if he were to need a permanent home, we would be that home. But, while there was a chance that he could be reunited with his first family, we remained committed to helping them in any way we could...and we would take care of Elijah as if he was our own until the day of reunification occured. That is not an easy task..but one God gave us the grace and strength to do. We stumbled miserably along the way...but we committed ourselves to this goal."
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