Reframing Foster Care Quotes

“Our world was too small before. Our faith was too shallow, our theology too narrow, our dreams too temporary, our family too isolated, our Christianity too comfortable, our worries too finite, our relationships too homogenous and our prayers too selfish.”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those
who give away by the shovelfuls. CHARLES SPURGEON”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“As excited as we may be about fostering kids, we can be fairly certain that they’re less than excited about becoming foster kids. It isn’t our personal sense of excitement, but their personal tragedy—their heartache—that drives our efforts. It’s about our desire to see good come out of bad. Our willingness to embrace what is broken and do whatever it takes to bring healing. That’s why we do what we do. It has to be.”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“Every aspect of foster care is composed of equal parts good and bad, joy and sorrow, beauty and brokenness. It’s a good day when a child is placed in your home, a transition representing safety, security, and an opportunity for that child to be loved and cared for in a way they likely wouldn’t have experienced otherwise. It’s indeed a good day when a child is placed in your home—but it’s at the same time a really bad day: a day marred by hurt and brokenness, a day in which, though so much gain has been made available to a child, loss has ultimately led them to this point. In too many cases a recurring cycle of family brokenness has perpetuated itself into the lives of the next generation—abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment have become a part of their story.”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“God didn’t call you to this because He thought you could handle it, and He certainly isn’t surprised by the fact that there are those times when you can’t. He called you to this to show what He can do through you—not just handle it but accomplish beautiful things through it—through you. He is using you, a mere human, to help resolve a seemingly insurmountable human problem.”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“The deepest need you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greater purpose of God. JOHN PIPER”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“Elizabeth Oates wife, mom of five (including three biological and two adopted
through foster care), author, blogger, speaker”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel

“discovered that you can’t simply invite brokenness into your home and not to some degree be broken by it. You can’t hold abused innocence in your arms and not on some level lose a sense of your own innocence as a result. You can’t hear stories of the deep fractures in others’ lives and not see the cracks in your own and understand that on some level we’re all the same—broken humans in need of redemption.”
― Jason Johnson, Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel