I could tell you about foster care…

By a FaithBridge foster mom whose identity will remain anonymous for the privacy of her foster children.   Talking about foster care is challenging for me, mostly because I could talk all…

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Changing Plans

If there’s one thing predictable about foster care it’s that it is completely unpredictable. The Stewarts* received a placement, and as time moved on, it looked like the children were going to…

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This is What Happens in Foster Care

Photo credit: Dairy in the sky via photopin (license) It took me awhile before I could walk past the dairy section of the grocery store without having flashbacks. In my memory, the song always came on…

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“Tomorrow Might Be Our Day”

#tbt to the time that FaithBridge foster mom, Katie Phillips, wrote about her emotions on the anticipation of receiving a placement. It’s a strange space in which to live and one with…

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Jim + Carol

“It’s so much fun!” Jim said for the umpteenth time in the conversation. “The pay is tremendous – you get to laugh, you get your heart filled, you get to see families…

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God Knows Exactly When

At the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt. Photo by Heather. “But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too…

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