To know what it is like to be loved and known. Have you ever wondered how a foster child feels? I thought about this a lot on my race because we have went from home to home and often times these last few months I have truly struggled with choosing love, joy, and perseverance. But it reminds of the few siblings I have had that have come and gone or come and stayed. And what that must be like to go from one home to the next. I would like to focus on a particular scenario, when you have a child in your home who is up for adoption but you cannot adopt even if you want to. I was trying to think of how this child might feel he is a part of your family, you cook him meals he sleeps in your house, you give him baths, you take him to school. YOU LOVE HIM. He is just not your son. He wants to be, he looks like from the outside but you and him both know he’s not. Somehow he’s not accepted, he can’t be adopted by your family.
This child, how does he feel?
Does he feel unwanted?
Does he feel overwhelmed by the amount of love the family has for him because they would do anything to adopt him, but it’s not their choice?
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In Haiti we met a man he overheard us sharing the gospel with someone and asked if he could also be apart?
We said yes and started asking him what he believed. We found out he believed in Jesus, and understood everything we were saying. But when we asked if he would like to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, he wanted to wait. It was at this moment I saw my foster brother. My father in heaven wants to adopt him so bad. So bad it hurts and I know it hurts him because every time a person tells us I want to wait, I don’t think I have emotions for how I feel. Yet no matter how bad my father wants to adopt a child the choice is not up to him, but the child. So why would the child want to feel unwanted? Doesn’t he know his father loves him?
