The Wait....

We spoke with E’s counselor last week, and we were very confirmed that she believes E was mis-diagnosed. We asked her a lot of questions and after our conversation felt very good about telling Buckner we could be E’s foster family. Since that conversation, we had to hurry up and finish getting our license to even be foster parents! All 5 of us had to get a T.B. test; we had to get a fence put around our pool; lock up any medicine we had in a box; finish mounds of paper work; and still need to get CPR trained!

We have talked to our kids about E, and they are very excited. However, there is one caveat; an out of state aunt has requested a home study be done on her to be able to have E come live with her. To our knowledge, E doesn’t know he has an aunt. No one knows where the aunt has been for the 5 years E has been in foster care. We were supposed to find out yesterday if the home study for the aunt was approved. However, as we are finding out, nothing really goes as originally planned. We called today and Buckner has not heard from Austin about the home study. If it is approved, E will go to live at his aunt’s house in June.

We have been praying for E that God will place him where He wants him. We have talked with our kids about the situation. While they would LOVE E to come to our house, we told them to put themselves in his position. If they found out they could go live with family or strangers, who would they want? The waiting and ambiguity is hard. However, we rest in the fact that none of it is a mystery to God. He knows where E needs to be, and He will take care of it.

A friend of ours commented on our blog and I loved what she said. She said, “What amazes me is how God knows his little hurting children out there and is not immune to their pain. He goes ahead of them and prepares a place in a loving family for that child.”

Please pray for E right now, and that God will make it clear where he is to live. It is funny how we haven’t even met him, yet he has touched our heart in a deep way.