My Ebenezer

How do I write what is on my heart when so many thoughts are running through my mind? My life changed today at about 3:30pm when I received a phone call.

I’m not ready to write about this yet but I can’t not write about it, either. I don’t want to miss any of the details or forget the emotions swimming through me tonight. Throughout this entire process, I have envisioned what would happen when we got “The Call”…..how I would wait until Brien got home and tell him in a fun way. I imagined going to see our parents and telling them in person about their soon-to-be grandchildren.

Funny, life never works the way we plan it. When that call came in today all rational thought left my head and my fingers started dialing as fast as they could. There is a two year old little boy in foster care tonight who may soon be coming to live at our house; maybe for forever and maybe just for a while. This will be a straight foster placement but the workers feel there is a good chance it will flip for adoption.

Today is Friday. The final decision will be made on Sunday. If he is moved from his current placement, he will be brought here. That same night. In less than 48 hours we could have a foster son living in our home. I know lots of you only read during the work week – what a surprise for those who log in on Monday morning to hear we have a foster son! ha ha ha

As you envision our family of two becoming a family of three, add one more. He has a baby sister, a newborn. She has not yet been released from the hospital but they expect her to be released sometime next week. She’ll come here also.

It doesn’t seem real to me; that all of this could happen so fast. I don’t believe it is really happening at all. I wan’t going to write until Monday, but we need your prayers. It would be so easy for me to pray that we get both of these children moved to our house and that we get to keep them forever. But we have to think of the children first. Their needs are so much more important than ours – PLEASE pray that God will put them in the place that is absolutely best for them. Pray also for us – that if they come here and are only here for a while that God will give us what we need to survive that.

Above all else, pray for a scared two year old little boy who probably doesn’t understand much of what is happening to him right now.

We are SO STINKIN’ excited we can’t stand it. We’re trying to guard our hearts but we can’t help but love these children already. Thank you, God, for the opportunity, for the hope and for your neverending Grace.