John and I are quickly approaching parenthood and as we do, I'm learning so much more than I anticipated! If we end up as total failures as parents--we atleast have learned such valuable information.
My favorite part of the classes are the excercises to personally emphasize their point. Tonight's focus was: Identity.
As a class we were given 5 post-its. We had 30 seconds to write down 5 different things that represented our identity. Once we were finished we had to slowly choose one post it after another to crunch up and throw on the ground. We had to pick which parts of our identity we were willing to give up.
Here was my list of things/people that have helped to make me who I am:
-Jesus
-Family
-Friends
-Teaching
-Moving
I started elimination from the bottom. As soon as I threw down the first post it I totally got the point. These kids coming to us have been asked to throw away their identity. Who they think they are is stripped from them...and we as foster parents are trying to create a new identity. These kids don't want to give up who they are. They don't want to be told that what has made who they are isn't good enough or what we think it should be. Powerful.
Once again, I take the same message home with me: these kids miss home. They could care less about being in a nicer house and having better food. They want home--it's who they are. It's what they know.
Oh the little overprivelaged world I live in.....my little bubble is about to burst. I pray the Lord wrecks my bubble and never lets me live in one again without a heartbreak for the hurting and lost.
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