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Our foster care journey, and Christian encouragement for foster parents.

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A Powerful Takeaway From When Jesus Heals A Leper

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There is no shame in returning empty, but don’t stay there. So often we allow the pain of “empty” to drive a wedge between God and us. We let it drive us behind a self-imposed wall in a useless attempt to hide from the pain, the questions, the shattered places to keep you from your savior’s arms. We allow it to become an excuse for staying locked behind solid walls. Plug back into Him, and fill back up. Let God pour over your bruised soul like a soothing balm.

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Letting The Lord Lead In Foster Care Walking the path of foster care is hard, beautiful, and heart-wrenching. It is invigorating and exhausting and beautiful and heartbreaking.  When I told a friend we had decided to begin this journey I had a friend tell me that it was going to break my heart... My heart. The sun has gone to rest behind the hills and the sky is all dark with the remnants of pink and purple staining the sky as I walk down the hallway from the bathroom.

Letting The Lord Lead In Foster Care

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Letting The Lord Lead In Foster Care
Walking the path of foster care is hard, beautiful, and heart-wrenching. It is invigorating and exhausting and beautiful and heartbreaking. When I told a friend we had decided to begin this journey I had a friend tell me that it was going to break my heart…
My heart.
The sun has gone to rest behind the hills and the sky is all dark with the remnants of pink and purple staining the sky as I walk down the hallway from the bathroom.

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She hugged herself feeling quite lost in the backseat of the older model car, the seats of cracked leather speaking of its well-used years. Beside her on the seat a wrinkled black plastic trash bag that held all of her worldly possessions, it wasn't much for her five years of life but it was hers. Her shoes were scuffed and half a size too small and her coat pinched her arm when she shifted them in her seat to look out the window. The sky was a slate gray and the clouds thick.  Before she left they said something about more snow on the way and they hoped it wouldn't mean bad traffic

When The Holiday’s Find You Lost

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She hugged herself feeling quite lost in the backseat of the older model car, the seats of cracked leather speaking of its well-used years. Beside her on the seat a wrinkled black plastic trash bag that held all of her worldly possessions, it wasn’t much for her five years of life but it was hers. Her shoes were scuffed and half a size too small and her coat pinched her arm when she shifted them in her seat to look out the window. The sky was a slate gray and the clouds thick.  Before she left they said something about more snow on the way and they hoped it wouldn’t mean bad traffic

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Keeping the faith, when life hurts, Keeping the faith in the hard times, remaining faithful by rosevine cottage girls

Keeping The Faith When Life Hurts

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Keep The Faith Keeping The Faith– even when it hurts.  Faith. Faith, it’s such a simple sounding word. Just five simple letters. Believe it or not, it’s our dog’s name. She is our constant reminder to keep having Faith. No matter how dark, ugly, scary or hopeless. But what about when you don’t want to have Faith? When your heart has been broken so badly that all you want to do is give up and walk away? Walking By Faith For we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident

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Broken Dreams

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Yesterday we received a package from my cousin Brittany. She had packed it full of little clothes and big dreams tucked beside newborn diapers, little socks and shoes that belonged to my little cousin Carter. My heart broke again as I imagined a different ending for that day back in September. I imagined Carter wearing

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