The Domesticated Male

My wife and I have always felt very thankful for the blessings in our lives. We have both had great families, friends, church families, and jobs and the list could go on and on. We have three beautiful girls that brighten our lives and make everyday a new adventure. We are very thankful and know that God has truly blessed us tremendously. Now we also have had times in our lives when being thankful has been harder to say and feel: when the financial crunch of having a baby hit; when the financial woes of college and early careers were not so enlightening; when the bills were piling up and the money was running out. It's very difficult in those seasons of life to be thankful. This year we have been fortunate to attend benefit events for both Lifehouse Ministries and Ruth's Cottage and Pattycake House. We have also been able to help with a new Women's Recovery Center in Douglas, Still Waters. Our church, Journey Church, in Tifton also had a service project at Brother Charl

Psalm 139:14 New Living Translation (NLT):   Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. They arrived with a few clothes in bags and a few toys in boxes. We were nervous as they were too. We had gone through 'Impact' Training and all the requisite background checks and home visits. We had been a parent to our biological child for 5 years so we believed that we understood the particulars that children need to feel love, support and nurturance. I was less prepared mentally and emotionally than my wife. She had worked in the DFCS arena for close to a decade and understand the nuances and much of the process related to foster care. Other than the training several months previously I had no interaction with the state system in the past. My family had no interaction with or ever had a need to interact with DFCS so I had no reference to how this process proceeded in regards to the children and all that would entail.