Batman. Ok not Batman but he is a really cool superhero!
What is really beginning is a new season of our lives:
Fostering/Adoption.
Chad and I have been working with Loving Houston Adoption
Agency to become licensed as a foster-to-adopt family and we are just about
through with the paperwork – the never ending paperwork. So yay! We got a call
last week asking if we could provide respite care for a week for a sweet little
girl who is about to turn 1 and we said yes. So on Friday we will open our
house up for what will hopefully just be the first of many times to a child in
need. Please be praying for us!
A little background on how we have reached this point: in
college (why is it that so many things seem to find some kind of roots in
college?) I got the privilege to
witness the awesome testimony to God’s greatness through families
fostering and adopting and I knew one day God would have me do the same. So at
the beginning of this year when I really started feeling God pulling my heart
toward the orphans of this world, I did what any Christianity and Biblical language
student from HBU would do, I started reading books:
Adopted
for Life by Russell Moore
Orphanology
by Tony Merida and Rick Morton
Reclaiming
Adoption by Dan Cruver, John Piper, Scotty Smith and Richard Phillips
Crazy
Love by Francis Chan
Radical
by David Platt
To name a few. And I started praying.
Well God always answers prayers and through some cool
circumstances I learned about this ministry called Little Footprints. You can
check them out here: www.littlefootprintscm.com. Chad and I really love the heart of Little Footprints and tentatively started
going forward. We completed training in October and have been doing paperwork
since to get licensed. And now we will have a little gal for a week.
Can I tell you – I am excited and terrified all at the same
time. I don’t know what to expect and I must be crazy because I’m pregnant
y’all and going to have 3 of my own soon. What where we thinking? We weren’t and
aren’t we are just being obedient to what God is calling us to do. And maybe it
will be a disaster and maybe my heart will be broken after falling in love with
these littles who may one day be mine or may never be mine. But maybe I’ll fall
more in love with my Jesus. And maybe my faith will be made stronger. And maybe
I’ll bring a smile to my Father in Heaven because I dare to obey him and walk
out in faith and join him in a work he is already doing to save the lives of
these littles. I don’t know what to expect but I can say this I’m not afraid of
falling. And its not because I believe the answer given in Batman Begins as to
why we fall, you know the scence, “Bruce why do we fall? We fall so we can
learn to pick ourselves up.” No. It’s because I believe what Jesus did for Peter
(in Matthew 14:22-33) he will do for me when I fall, He will IMMEDIATELY grab
hold of me. I can’t pick my self up and I'm so glad I don’t have to because I
have a savior who loves me and will pick up.
I know it’s long but the song, Oceans by Hillsong, has been
really meaningful to me lately and if you listen to it or read the lyrics I
think you’ll know why. So this is how I’m ending my post with a link to the youtube video because I'm still new to this blogging stuff and you got some paragraphs out of me this time - so be thankful :)
Destiny, I feel the same way about this journey--excited and terrified all at the same time! It's funny how you bring up Matthew 14 because we were just studying that chapter in our women's Precept study at church and what really stood out to me was the use of the word "immediately." Jesus immediately comforted the disciples when they were afraid, and he immediately saved Peter when he was afraid. God is our ever present help. Thank you for the reminder. :)
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