God Telling Me My Story... One Chapter at a Time

Two days to go before Brian finishes up at work and comes home to the family business. Two years since starting a charitable organization for foster children and orphans. One phone call might have answered a prayer... And be the introductory sentence to the next paragraph of my life story.

We have always had a calling to be around children. I hear this phrase in my heart over and over again "Take care of My children". We have been trying to adopt for more than 10 years. God hasn't made that happen yet - he keeps sending us children by birth but puts us in the way of foster and orphaned children. We started One Family Foundation two years ago in order to try to help these children. We hoped it would enable us to bring some children into our home to be raised in a loving family and be given a bright future. We met two beautiful little boys in the process and still hold out hope that one day we will be able to adopt them. For two years, we got nowhere with the foundation - just dozens of letters requesting funds that we couldn't give. It was heartbreaking.

Yesterday, there was a message on our business line. It was from Lutheran Social Services of the South - based in Texas. The lady was calling to ask if they could please partner with us to help orphaned children. I was stunned. What perfect timing - right when we are being blessed with Brian's presence at home, the long-awaited publication of our magazine, and the establishement of what may become an independent private school. We've been wondering how we can fill in our time. We found that it isn't going to take the quantity of time we thought, but the flexibility of that time... In the course of running the businesses and teaching our children together, we are left with more time than we had when Brian was commuting 2 hours a day and working 8-10 hours in between.

So the fundraising programs I'd spent time developing are getting dusted off, and I'm in need of volunteers like never before to help us get this wonderful charity off the ground. God reveals himself in strange and wonderfully surprising ways. It's a good thing I love surprises - unfortuantely, I'm not patient. I love to shake the packages!