Love Is In Bloom

I am going to use the name "Janie" for our little one. This is not her real name, but a meaningful one to me. 1. When I have read about how God has adopted us as His own, I always felt like I was His "good deed". I was, but it is so much more than that. When he took me into His family, it was His good pleasure to have me as his daughter. When Janie was brought to our door, I felt a miracle in my heart take place. I felt the love God had for Janie and for me and for all of us on a level I hadn't experienced before. I don't know what the certain future of this sweetheart is, for now we are her foster family for a season and that is what  I know. She is not legally adopted, but she is our family, as loved and as included as my biological children and this is what she and all foster children deserve. I am living for today, and today she is grafted into our family until we are told differently and that day she will still be prayed for as my own forever, even if

              I'm at a really unusual place in life. I am in a waiting room that one phone call will change. We are officially an open foster/adoptive home! This excites me, but also pains me, because the realization that something bad has to happen between now and having another child in our home to love on is the reality of this situation. I don't know what our story will look like. I wonder if we will be one of those homes that has many children come through, or if adoption will happen soon or in the distant future. I do know I am called to this, with all my heart I know I am called to this. What "this" is, I don't know tonight. My "this" is actually a person, a soul, a child who deserves to have their needs met and to be loved unconditionally. Their parents are real people who did not choose adoption at birth, who are in dark places in their life right now, needing hope, help and a fresh start. I wonder what the child God has for us to love on is doi