The Wait

"Wait for the Lord, Be Strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes wait for the Lord."

Psalm 27:14

It has been really hard waiting this past this year.  We have waited more in the past  two years than we have ever had to in our lives.  When had to wait 9 months to become licenced to foster.  We had to wait for our first call for a placement.  We had to wait for our actual first placement.  We had to wait to hear about how our foster sons case was going to play out.  Wait for his mom and dad to go in and out of jail before the court and the system moved toward termination.  Wait to hear if dad's appeal is going to be denied.  Wait for another placement... and on and on and on.

And here we are a year later and guess what?  We are still waiting.  Some of it we are waiting on his still Evan's case to be resolved but some of it's of our own doing :)

We have really thrown Buckner for a loop with our family.  We approached them about 6 months ago because Steve and I really want to foster and try to straight adopt at the same time.  This means we would love to continue to  be called for foster placements but at the same time we  would like to submit our home study for consideration for children that are ready to be adopted now.  Buckner scratched their heads on this one.  They have not , at least at our local agency, had a family that wanted to do this before.  I didn't understand why this was a big deal but apparently it is because the foster side and adoption side are two separate entities.  They were worried about how it would play out if the foster side called us for kids and we were waiting to hear if we were chosen for a straight adopt placement too.

We solved their problem for them.   We just redid our home study so that we are licenced for 5 children now ;)  We knew we would never foster more than 2 at a time and that we would never submit for a sibling group to adopt more than 2 children.  So we are good!!

So, here we sit waiting again.  We have been called about 12 different children in the past 2 weeks.  They have either gone to another family or we have said no because of extenuating circumstances.  So we wait for a call for another foster placement.  We have also submitted for 7 children to straight adopt.  3 of them we have heard that we were not chosen but we are still "waiting" to hear about the others!!!

God is teaching us pure patience for sure!  It's a joy :)