Yesterday I walked out of the doors at work finishing my final day (don’t worry, they knew! I gave a two week notice). I closed a chapter in my life.
When one chapter closes, we get to move into the next one.
Today is a great new beginning. I am very excited to work in a home with a family from church.
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What a great training ground as I am preparing my heart to welcome children into our home, as well as returning home full time once we get a placement!
I’m very excited about this transition from an institution (I was working in a residential treatment facility for at risk youth) into a home. Even though it isn’t my home, it is a home.
I am going to get the opportunity to grow my skills in homemaking again, as well as learn more about the day to day life of a Christian family with young children.
I know that God has ordained this opportunity for me to learn first hand about what a Biblical family life looks like.
You see, I wasn’t raised in a “christian” home. We went to church when I was young, then we didn’t really go again regularly until I was a teenager, and even then it was I who took the initiative and became involved. I remember many things that shaped my childhood in a negative way because of the lack of a Biblical worldview. So, I want my family life to be different.
I see many things that God has placed in my life to prepare me and train me for this specific role as a foster/adoptive parent. I have a wide variety of experience working with a wide variety of children. I’ve served in many capacities with children. I’ve worked with children who have special needs. I’ve worked in a school setting. I’ve worked in an institutional setting. I’ve worked with at-risk youth.
Much of my life has been spent working with kids, a people group that I am greatly passionate about.
Now, God is giving me yet another experience that is preparing me to be a parent to my children. What a great opportunity to have as the final leg before we get to bring our children home. I get to witness first hand, and be a part of (in a small way), the life of a Christian family with young children. I get to see what it looks like to parent kids with an eternal perspective.
Can you tell that I am excited?
Lord, I thank you for your attention to detail in the way that you have been preparing me for many years for this hopefully soon-to-come welcoming of children into our home. You always get all the details just right, down to the very last one of them. Your timing is perfect! I see how you have orchestrated events and suffering in my life to prepare me for this fast approaching arrival. Thank you, Lord, for your goodness and the plans that You have made for my life. May I continue to embrace every single one of Your plans and live them out with joy for Your glory. Amen.
