Spaghetti Tacos

We anticipated a call for a young child.

Instead we received a call for a 15 year old girl who needed temporary placement. 

The horrors she has endured in her short life can not even be imagined. 

The morning after her first night in our home she told me she slept through the night for the first time ever. 

EVER. 

She was grateful, she was kind, she was helpful 

and she desperately wanted to be loved. 

She tried broccoli for me, I made spaghetti tacos for her. 

Spaghetti tacos are completely horrifying and not as bad as you imagine all at the same time. 

She felt the same about the broccoli.

Sometimes God doesn't give us what we anticipate. 

I am so glad we changed our minds about taking a teen. 

We said no that same morning. 

We said that we wanted to learn to walk before we learned to run. 

By 4:30pm the same day, I was picking her up. 

Now she has moved on, but

she knows we believe in her. 

She knows God loves her. 

as for us...

God was faithful, 

and 

we learned to run.