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  • Waiting on the promise.

    Waiting on the promise.

    God gave Joseph a dream where Joseph was in a position of power, and his family members were bowing to him. Joseph had to wonder how could this be? What could the dream really mean? When…

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  • A smile can hide a broken heart.

    The summer after I asked my husband to take our foster son (baby) back to The Department of Human Resources, I was struggling. I felt like I had failed God, failed that baby, and failed my…

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  • God is in the details

    God is in the details

    *Picture is of my two oldest crying into my husband’s shoulder and face when our first foster love went home. I woke up while it was still black outside. I thought to myself how February 1st,…

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  • Waiting…

    Waiting is so hard, yet it is also such a big part of our life journey. We wait “to be a big kid,” we wait to graduate high school, we wait until we are old enough…

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  • Rest for the weary

    Rest for the weary

    Matthew 11:28 NIV “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” If rest is what God gives to us when we are weary, is rest not also what…

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  • What does foster parenting require?

    To answer this question, I could tell you the paperwork needed, the spacing between cribs, the rules for travel out of state, the flexibility needed for family visits, or quite a few other “requirements.” However, the…

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  • Christmas Gift

    Christmas Gift

    I’ve written the below for the little one I was able to love on, in my home, for a little short of one year. He was our foster son, but I was unable to meet his…

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  • We rewarded our son, Holden, with a parakeet. This was to be his very own pet. He had spent a summer and fall taking classes to help him be an overcomer as that related to his…

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  • Forgiveness

    Forgiveness

    Recently I disappointed my daughter by getting her a book she has been anxiously awaiting, but not slowing down long enough to see I got it in Spanish. *Not a representation of bigger let downs. However,…

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