Tag: foster

One step closer

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Laurie met with our foster care advocate from the Texas Baptist Home this morning.

She came for a pre-service visit of our house to be sure we have everything inline for our official home study. Laurie called and said everything checked out OK.

All we needed before our official visit from CPS is to purchase a pack-n-play and car seat to be prepared in case we get a call in the middle of the night saying there’s a child or two waiting for us to bring to our house.

So Laurie’s out doing some shopping and we’re crossing our fingers that CPS will come the week directly after Christmas for their visit. If everything works out we could be certified as foster parents by the first of the year.

In addition, Laurie’s just finished stripping, sanding and re-painting a dresser for the nursery. It’s a dresser that she had as a child and her mom did as well. That makes two dressers she’s redone for the room.

Lauries been hard at work

So we’re that much closer! Thanks for all your support and prayers!

Your intrinsic, immutable value

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As part of our foster care certification process, we’ve been asked to read three books and write book reports on them. I know! Book reports?!

It’s not really that bad. They basically want to find out what we’ve learned from said books. As simple as it may be, or as complex as it may be.

In the book I’m trying to finish up now, “Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew,” the author shares some of the special needs adopted children may have.

  • I need to be taught that my life narrative began before I was born and that my life is not a mistake
  • I need to be taught that in this broken, hurting world, loving families are formed through adoption as well as birth
  • I need to be taught that I have intrinsic, immutable value as a human being
  • I need to accept the fact that some of my adoption questions will never be answered in this life

As I read this list, I thought — how true to life this is for everyone else as well.

Imagine if we each understood and realized these needs as our needs as well.

What would that do to your psyche?

How would it change you today if you realized that your life narrative began before you were born and that your life is not a mistake?

What would that do to your spirit and soul to realize that YOU have intrinsic, immutable value as a human being?

I hope it excites you like it excites me!

And then take it one step further….

How would it change your attitude today if you believed that about everyone else around you?