"Let the little children come to me" Mt. 19:14

The most recent adventure we have been called to embark on is to be foster parents. We have completed all of the paperwork and are awaiting our final inspection of our home (we had a smoke detector out and had to replace it), we have completed the training (2 saturdays from 9-9!) and I am currently working on the prehomestudy questionnaire (I never remember how to spell questionnaire/questionairre/questionnairre). They agency will come do a homestudy and we will go over the types of kids we'd be willing to take in. That sounds so unfeeling and robotic. To clarify, the kids are typed based on how abused and neglected they were. There is Basic, Moderate (defined by more behavioral problems and usually on some type of medication, in particular psychotropic meds) and severe (kids in wheel chairs, retarded, cerebal palsy, etc...as a result of the abuse, or some even abused b/c of it I imagine). Because our children are still so young and do need so much of us we will probably stick to basic. Once they are older, I'd like to think we'd take any child that needed care. Some of the stories we heard from other foster parents are just too horrible to even mention! It is so sad and I just don't understand how anyone could hurt their babies as these people have. If they leave our home with nothing else, I hope they know and believe that Jesus Christ died for them and their parents (as sin wrecked as they are) and Jesus is wanting them to come to Him and He will take care of them. I am praying they will understand the word safe and feel safe and secure in our home. I am also praying for wisdom in general. I have no idea how this is going to work and it is so very liberating to just trust the Lord. I have no control here and for once I think I like it. My heart feels so full of the Lord it wants to burst. I just can't say enough wonderful things about our creator and how He has taught me and sought me and brought me to Him in such a wonderful way through the organization of BSF. I don't want to give the organization any more credit than is due them. It is all b/c of the Lord that they exist and are touching so many lives. Will definitely keep you/me posted on how this journey progresses. I will put up pictures as well so our family can see our new kiddos when they come to us.
Blessings...

My Precious Little Ones...

Will I ever get tired of writing about my babies??? Not at all! So, I'm sitting at the dining table working on my homiletics for BSF and Jovi is sitting next to me coloring. She was trying to find a page in her workbook to color and was singing as always...and I do mean always! It took me a minute to realize she was singing "Be Thou My Vision". What a blessing! I love that song and do play it. It amazes me how she picks things up. She has such a joyful heart and a grateful heart! She loves the Lord and that gives me so much joy because she loves Him inspite of anything I've done. God is so good to call His children to Him and to so gently hold them in the palm of His hand.
Another funny is that she was singing a song she totally made up in the car this morning. It lasted a good 5 minutes or more...she just kept going. Some of the lines were "thank you for all the kids you created, thank you for the ingredients in cake, thank you for the houses we live in, thank you for the trees, thank you for the food, I love you so much, please hold onto my balloon for me for when I get to Heaven" and it went on and on! So sweet.
Dane was supposed to be sleeping, but has now awaken so I must go tend to him. I need to write more and that little doodle bug soon. He too is growing so fast and developing a love for the Lord I could have only dreamed about.
Thank you, Precious Lord, for my beautiful babies!