New Territory

Today is a day that I know will be different from any other day. My life and the lives of those close to us will be changed forever. I am waiting anxiously for a phone call to pick up our new foster child. It's a boy. He was born on October 15th and has already expierenced horrible trauma to his fragile little body. I am prepared with clothes and all the things needed to care for this innocent baby, but I am wondering how it is possible to be a mother to a child that isn't mine. May be I can stay detached emotionally until he is either adopted or given back to his parents....NOT POSSIBLE! I know that God is going to give me the strength to care for this new life in our home.
I told Gibson that we were going to get a baby today and that he would be staying with us for a while, and I asked him if he would help me take care of the baby. He nodded his head and I feel like he understood.

"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"