My husband, our daughter, and I went into this journey of foster care with our hearts open and ready to love children who needed to be loved, cared for, and taken care of. There are things you really don’t understand until you are in this process.
Yes, children have tough moments and you do your best to get through those. Not every child is meant to be in your home forever, but what you have with each child is right now.
Hearts hurt, minds confused, why is this process so hard…
- Would you like moving from home to home often?
- Would you like getting attached to a family for someone else to make another decision for your future?
- Would you like losing children who already have a place in your heart and feel like they belong?
- Would you like seeing the emotions behind their little eyes and know you can’t take their pain away?
- Would you like living in their shoes?
Some ask how can you do this and why do you do this…Because we are God’s hands and feet.
“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” ~ 1 Peter 4:10, NIV
We were made to love! We have hearts and minds that strongly dislike seeing children suffer at the hands of their situations that are/were completely out of their control.
You may not understand and that’s ok. The only thing I ask is pray for the children, their families, and the families who choose to take steps in this process hoping to love/care for/help children and not realizing how hard it will actually be until their knee deep in and don’t want to turn around…instead decided to go waist or head deep.
💕Kayla💕
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