Becky’s Reviews > Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent > Status Update

How do you balance the impossible tension of loving a child like they are your own when they are not? You keep a string hold on your thoughts, a close leash on your worries. You keep your mind sealed up tight. But you don’t ever close your heart, you keep that wide open.

As I’ve rocked and comforted my foster babies I’ve often thought ‘you may not remember me, but your brain and body will remember this. And it will make all the difference’”
Attachment teaches a child ‘the world makes sense, my needs will be met, people are trustworthy.’”

Attachment is the whole point of foster care, after all. Kids don’t just need homes and food and caretakers. They need families, families who are willing to give them their hearts, life them as their own, and get “too attached”.

“I fall into fear when. I define who God is by what I see rather than defining what I see by who God is.”

My life is not about what I’m doing for Him; it’s about what He has done for me. And it’s from this place that I follow Him into what He has called me to do. It’s at this place that the cost all makes sense…
But do you know why fostercare is worth it? Because it’s gospel work. And living for Jesus is always, always worth it.