What a life it is!!!

I wake up every morning feeling so blessed to be living the life God has given me. I am blessed to be born again, adopted by God's love, mercy, and grace, healthy, loved, protected, and provided for. I am blessed to be married to a wonderful Christian man who is funny (most of the time), loves Carolina, children, and most importantly God. I am blessed to be able to go to work and make a difference in the life of 20+ children and to be taught something from them everyday. I really feel blessed to be used by God to make a difference in one certain child's life. God has trusted my husband and me to be foster parents. This has been an emotional, interesting, fun, and exciting ride. We did not get married thinking this was going to happen. In fact when we first started talking about adopting we said we would not do foster care because we did not think we would be able to handle having to give a child back. God had other plans in store for us. He directed us not only to a church that has a huge heart for adoption but also to a Connection Group that is filled with couples who are adoptive parents, foster parents, or becoming foster parents. One of these parents spoke at an adoption class I was taking and said something that has forever changed our lives. She said that when they thought they were going to have to give back one of their girls they prayed about it and came to peace with the idea that if God wanted to place a child in their heart long enough to know that someone would forever be praying for them then they would be okay with having to give their foster child back. That is all we needed to hear. We know foster care is the path God has sent us on and we are trusting him with this. Yes it has been filled with many tears but there are many many more smiles, hugs, laughs, and the sweetest of all "I love yous." I would not trade in any of my tears and heartache for one of those hugs or "I love you." Praying and looking forward to the new adventures God is going to be sending to us.