Making the decision to become a foster parent is one that will radically change anyone’s life. It grows your knowledge of the 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, it breaks your heart for what breaks God’s, and opens your eyes, home, heart and world to a child who desperately needs love.
But for most foster parents, they’ll tell you that the joy outweighs the heartbreak. Showing a child who may have experienced trauma, or unthinkable situations, what safety, security, love and kindness looks like—it’s the epitome of being the Lord’s hands and feet on the earth.
Being the mommy and daddy to a child who needs one can be so rewarding. But after a new placement with a two-year-old girl, foster mom Jamie recently experienced how the word “mommy” took on a whole new meaning.
“She walks in confidently and with a smile,” Jamie shared on Facebook. “She knows the drill. In her two years of life, she’s spent five months in foster care. In her five months in care, she’s been in four different homes.”
“She wanders around with the other kids for approximately 11 minutes before she runs into the room with a smile and says, ‘Look, mommy!’'
To me. The woman she met 11 minutes before.
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