WOW, this is something. We already have 4 wonderful kids. Really God you pick us??? These thoughts rushed through me. We have prayed about this so much and God keeps hammering it home. Foster and adding more of His children to our home. Raising more children for His kingdom. You know we are not the high and mighty people. We love the Lord with all our hearts, but we are sinners. So why call us? How do we know he is calling us?
There are several, here are just a couple.
Little things. Like telling Jen in the hall at church to pray for an answer one way or another and our sweet paster comes out and hugs me right after I told her. Then going into service and writing out our prayer request and asking for guidance. I said there is a fire in my heart that will not go away. Tom Allen then in that service talked about how God speaks to us. He then went to say those same words. That Fire in your heart is put there by God...
This fire started many many years ago and has came up and went away many times in our 15 years of marriage. Thankfully, Lewis is right on board. He is exactly looking a 15 passenger vans so we have the room to carry all our babies. We thought when we had problems getting pregnant that we would just adopt, it would be ok. Then we were blessed with twins not just any twins MY twins. They are one of the biggest blessings. So then we had another boy Gods plan is perfect in every way... We thought again, we will adopt a little girl. Then we had our little girl. Our house was full and complete or so I thought. I KNEW in my heart I would not have any more natural kids. Even though our children are Perfect in every way. I knew I was being called to something more.
We went camping this past weekend. Talk about Fostering all the way home trying to figure out some of the details. Well Sunday night I was cleaning up listening to KSBJ and the program was about What you ask. Yes, fostering and adopting. We have only listened to this program like 4 times this year. Its never once been about this topic. Wow, for me to be in the camper, doing dishes, alone meaning without crazy kids being loud, at the right time and right place. It was like God was speaking through these people, my heart is opened more.
Now, the time has come. We have meet so many wonderful families that have adopted such wonderful kids. They have completed their families. We are drawn to the stories and we Long for a story of our own. Excited to see where God is leading us. We will follow with open hearts and open minds. We see up to 2 more girls, or boy girl at our dinner table. Laughing and crying right along with us. Two more to love and raise for His glory.
I pray God touches both of our hearts in ways that we can not deny. I pray that God uses His Word to speak to us and guide us to his will. I pray His will is done. I want to walk down His path not my own. Its not going to be easy, we totally understand this. But we can do all things Through Him.
Last, I pray for our families that will be touched by this. I Pray that there Hearts are also opened. I also pray for our friends. We only have a few really close ones that I can call on. I pray that they will also understand and approach us with open God filled hearts. This road is just about to start and I am SUPER excited.
We will follow Him. I know he already has our children picked and are preparing them for us right now. I am so excited to see what he has in store for us.
First meeting is with Lutheran Social Services at 6:30 on this Thursday, Sept 5th. Please join me in praying for our future children and our 4 little ones now.
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