Updates on the boys

Ok, so once again its been a long time since I have wrote an update. I wonder how many posts I have started off like this? Hmmm... anyway, that doesn't matter, what does is this...

I will start with my nephews. Some of you know the whole story and some of you don't. If you want the whole story email me or message me on facebook and we will get together one day and talk about it. Anyway, it is not looking good for their parents at all! They are back in jail and have been for a few weeks and will be for at least 2 months. Which means in the meantime they aren't showing up for visits and they aren't participating in their programs... which they didn't do much of when they weren't in jail either. So, it looks like July holds a lot of hope for the kids.

I truely believe that God's timing is perfect! When I had these kids in 2006 and they went home in 2007 it totally broke our hearts. Its never good to question God but we thought "Why God? Why did you take them out of that terrible situation only to put them back again?" Well, I know why He took them out in the first place. That year SAVED Caiden's life! I think back to the angry little boy who couldn't talk and the only emotion he knew was anger and then I think back to the day he went back and he was a happy, loved boy full of potential and I see him today and he is still the same sweet, loving kid he was the day he left us.

Now, here we are in the same situation again with these kids. My mom has Joshua, the oldest and my sister has Seth and Caiden the next two. The foster mom who had Leland last time has him again with his sister Jordan. This time I know it has to be for good. I prayed every night "Lord, I love these kids so much and the only hope for them is to get out of that situation. It breaks my heart to think of the life they will lead if they continue on this way. I know you love them more than I do and, Lord, I know you will protect them as you have promised." I think to that verse Matthew 18:16 "But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." The oldest one, Joshua got saved when we had him the first time. He used to always ask me questions and all the time in the car we would be driving around and I would say "Josh, who made the sky?" He said "God did" "Well then, who made the birds?" he answered again "God did" and we would go on and on and finally I would say "Well how could He do all that?" He would say "Because Aunt Rachel, He is God". It used to make me smile and I was so proud of him. So one day he was really asking me about getting to heaven and so I asked him "do you want to talk to grandpa about it?" Knowing my grandpa would have just the right words to help him understand. And he said "yeah!" So we walked upstairs and I told my grandpa he wanted to talk to him about getting saved and my grandma and I stood in the kitchen, listening, and crying as grandpa put it in the simplest terms and him and Joshua prayed. He came running out of that room with a huge smile on his face and said "Aunt Rachel, I asked Jesus to save me!" I hugged him and told him how proud of him I was and that I was his age when I got saved too. He was due to have a visit with his parents the next day and he told me "I am going to tell my mommy and daddy at the visit" I said "Good for you." He said "but mommy doesn't believe in God" I said "thats ok, you can tell her anyway, but don't get upset if she tries to tell you God isn't real" he said "I will call her a LIAR! God is real!!" I thought of that verse, But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. God protects His little ones.