Faith over Fear
I thought of this post while driving to church today and during the sermon he said exactly what I was thinking of “faith is the enemy of fear” not doubt. We all have doubts but we shouldn’t let that turn to fear and stop us from moving forward. This week we found out our boys may be leaving us sooner that I anticipated and I felt myself get angry then sad then worried but the reality is we got into fostering to give kids a safe space until they can reunify. We love our boys and we’ve loved on their parents. We give the extra phone calls, invite them to church (they came for the Christmas service and the boys loved it) and do extra visits when we can. We didn’t do this for us we did it for them. “Them” as in the families not just the kids. Life is hard. It isn’t fair. It is a beautiful mess and can leave us full of doubt but I refuse to let that turn to fear. We will love on these boys and their family and when it’s time to say “see you later” to our boys, my heart will hurt, but it is