Since I last wrote, God has been doing big things in my life and I want to update you on them!
Short version: I'm going to be a foster parent.
Long version: The Why
Though I've always wanted to adopt some day, I've always dismissed the idea of raising children in any capacity as a single women. It was something I wanted to do after I got married. My default position was that kids are best served by two parents, and single parenting should be reserved for un-chosen circumstances (the death of a parent or divorce).
However, over the past five years I've slowly been coming to the conclusion that I might never get married. It's possible, of course, but at the moment that is nowhere near happening. And as this realization was dawning on me, so too was the concept that maybe single fostering is actually a good thing, and something I could do.
Single parenting is not ideal, of course, but no fostering situation is ideal, is it? Ideally a child could be safe and cared-for by their own parents in their own home. I can't offer a child a home with a father and a mother, but I can offer a home where they will not be abused or neglected. The bar, friends, is not high.
But let me be clear- I'm not pursuing fostering because it's logical or I feel duty-bound. God has asked me to do this, and so I am. I'm believing Him to work in and through me, to make me enough for the kids that He brings me. As the saying goes, "God doesn't call the equipped. He equips the called." (see Hebrews 13:20-21)
Plus, my last name is Foster, so I figure it was destiny.
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