TWINS!!!

When you decide to obey God's calling on your life, you really never know where that will take you.

For me, the call began about 3 years ago. I became more aware of the world of foster care and felt led to learn more. From that came my discovery of The Forgotten Initiative and my advocacy through them here in Birmingham. Then, last spring, the time finally seemed right to take the foster parent training classes and finally at the beginning of January we were officially licensed as foster parents.

Our vision for this was one child younger than our youngest. We felt like that was what "we could handle". And then the call came...twins. I was speechless. We hadn't even considered this. But here we were with 2 babies needing a home and us having plenty of room for 2. But could we do it?

We had a long weekend full of uncertainties and unlikely scenarios. And then God didn't just crack the door open for us to say yes...he blew the doors wide open. And meanwhile showed us just how much His people were willing to do to support us if we would just say yes. And so we said yes.

A few hours later I held a precious little girl and boy in my arms and the journey really began.

Yes, we're exhausted. Yes, it's tough to jump into being parents of 2 toddlers. Yes, there are difficult issues involved in being part of "the system".

But also Yes, God is holding our hands every step of the way. Yes, our friends and family and church are loving on us in exceedingly generous ways. Yes, He is answering the prayers I pray in the middle of the night, on the heads of the babies, with our boys before bed...it's emotional, it's moving, but most of all it proves to me once again that when we step out in obedience, even beyond what we believe we are capable of, God is there doing more than we ask or even imagine, just as He promises.