Our story started a few years ago when we felt like we were being called to do foster care. It kept coming up over and over again, and we kept dragging our feet.
We’re too busy. I want to get my business up and running. I love traveling too much. I don’t really know how to parent… you know… all the excusesย ๐
And then something crazy happened where we found ourselves praying overย a potential adoption that was presented to us as quickly as you can snap your fingers. We prayed, looked into what it would take, but felt as though the Lord said that baby wasn’t our baby. HOWEVER, at the same time, our willingness to stop, pray, and dream about taking in a child that quickly led us to say, “If we were willing to consider an adoption so easily, why are we not obeying the calling to become foster parents and love on these kids in need.”
We don’t have biological children yet, and so it’s often asked, or it’s just assumed, that we are on this journey of foster care as a means to grow our family because we are unable to have biological children.
We’ve actually never tried to have biological children. We have no idea if we will be blessed with any or not, BUT we both felt a calling to do foster care, and it happened to be before trying to grow our family. I love this tweet that Tyler sent me that said “We fostered first because God called us to foster and you don’t delay obedience.”ย ๐ญ
We’ve gone into this thing knowing and supporting 100% that the goal of fostering isn’t to end in adoption and for us to grow our family. The goal is that these cases end in healing and restoration of a family. Although many cases DO end up in adoption, and are a different type of redemption story, we will continue to have our sights set on praying for change/restoration of bio families until that isn’t an option any more and we will love any kiddo that comes through our home like they ARE our own for as long as we can, no matter how their stories unfold.
