Realizing my passion for Foster Care

God is working in me a lot espically since I finished a Bible Study yesterday called "When God Speaks" through my church. God will use every way He can to get across to us whether through His Word, His people, His church, or everyday life. It is sad when 19 children has to sleep in the DHS office over one weekend because there isn't enough foster homes or people to take them in. I've been going through somethings with friends and work that made me realize that I could be better at being more and ways I could grow more as a leader and as a person. I need to have more confidence and trust in myself more and what I'm doing and want to do and then use my words to share that with people outside of work. I need to and want to have more intentional talks with people and see where they are at in their lives. I'm excited because the thought of becoming a foster home might come true as God leads the way. I talked to a foster group at my church and they are going to get a study called "The Connected Child" started at church in the Fall so hopefully I can attend that because it sounds interesting. That was the Sunday morning foster care group and I'll be getting together with the Saturday night foster care group this next week and see what they are doing to help. God is moving me along and it is hard and happening fast but yet so rewarding at the same time and I'm learning so much which I love. I would have to take classes and prepare like get credits to be a foster parent but that's okay because then I will be learning more without the payments like I would have to in college. One thing I wish to help with is getting the church more involved in foster care/adoption. Where I live we have two of the biggest churches around and I'm attending one of them. We are focused on church planting and college missions and internationals which is great but what about the little children that God called us to from the start. Why not start there so we don't have all these problems? Why doesn't the church as a whole see where our future comes from and then do something about it? God has just been laying foster care and abused and abandon children on my heart more and more to where I can't sleep at night some nights and to the point where I would cry uncontorlablely. I feel like I need to do something but I can't do it by myself. I can always pray that things would turn around for the children but we have to put our faith in action and I'm doing that as much as I can but it is not enough and I know that and it never will be until we get more and more people involved. Children are our future! We can raise them right or not but right now as a country and dinfantly as the Church we are doing very poorly. I will get off my Soapbox for now. Just another update at where I am in my life before this month is over. It's sad that I have only written two enteries this month. My goal is to write a lot during the months not just one or two. It is my goal to write every thought down but that's hard sometimes.