Change is always in the air when doing fostering of any type and you learn very quickly to be flexible or you'll snap. This round of orphan care is no exception. We originally signed up for 2 kids, a boy our son's age and a girl our daughter's age. Well, the day after we committed to those 2, the director left us a message saying, "We need to talk." Between the time Project 143 interviewed the children in Latvia and the time we committed, the boy assigned to us became in need of medical care and is no longer able to travel to the US. So he's off the list and we're only hosting Evija, the girl our daughter's age. We're still excited to have her come!!
I was just reading "Kisses From Katie" this week about Katie Davis, who is adopting 13 girls in Uganda. In the book, Katie had an incident where she felt prompted to ask an elderly lady to live with her. She prayed and wrestled with whether she could handle it or not. She finally decided in faith to offer her home and let God work it out. Immediately after she offered, the woman said, "No, thank you." Katie laughed to herself and realized sometimes God asks us to do stuff just to test us and build us up. I feel a little bit of empathy for that situation. We were told it would be easier to just host one child at a time. However, when we were trying to choose between the 2 kids, we just could not say no to either of them. Even though we knew it would be a bigger undertaking, we felt in our hearts that we should offer our home to both and let God work it out. Well, God did work it out, just differently than we expected. With the boy pulled from the program, we're down to one. But we feel guided, protected, and hopeful that this will be a good experience.
Thanks for tuning in. We should know a bit more in a few weeks. :)
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