Episode 120: The Good in Goodbye
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is familiar with saying goodbyes. Jamie Finn, host of the Real Mom Podcast, co-founder of Goods & Better, and the director of Foster the Family, has fostered many children over the years. In this episode, she shares her heart for foster care, how to renew and reorient your mind to do this work well, one of the most difficult decisions she’s ever made, and how she has coped with the fleetingness of fostering as well as the emotions that come along with it. If you are new to fostering or if you’ve been in this world a while, I know you will be encouraged and blessed by Jamie’s perspective!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | I love just the verse, renew your mind. |
| 0:13.2 | When we make things new, they immediately begin the process of becoming old again. |
| 0:18.3 | And so renewing is not ever just a once and done. It is a constant, |
| 0:23.6 | consistent, okay, I renewed, it's immediately becoming old again. It's a constant like putting on, |
| 0:30.6 | putting on and renewing because I am so tempted to the old and I'm so prone back to the old. |
| 0:42.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cave. Welcome back to the forgotten podcast. It is so good to be with you in this space. |
| 0:49.5 | If you are part of the foster care community, passionate about serving, or simply interested in learning |
| 0:55.1 | more, we are here for you. We are here for you. I hope you know this. Friends, I have been |
| 1:01.9 | blown away by your generosity as we've been walking through the Imagine campaign. Last month, |
| 1:08.2 | we celebrated 10 years of ministry, and this month, we are looking forward to what the next 10 years will hold. |
| 1:15.3 | Just imagine, you guys, if local churches felt confident to care for the foster care community |
| 1:20.8 | and meet the real physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of very real people. |
| 1:27.7 | Just imagine if foster care workers didn't feel spread thin anymore, |
| 1:32.3 | that they always had people to call on who they were confident would come through for them. |
| 1:37.7 | Just imagine if each person involved with foster care were surrounded by people willing to step |
| 1:43.9 | into the hard with them, |
| 1:45.5 | bear their burdens, and offer them the hope of Jesus. Just imagine what it would be like |
| 1:51.2 | if people everywhere supported the foster care community and experienced Jesus together. |
| 1:57.5 | This is our vision. This is what we are striving and working towards, guys. We want to |
| 2:03.9 | see each of these things become reality. Wouldn't it be amazing? But we can only accomplish this |
| 2:09.8 | together. We have this big goal that by the end of May, where we want to raise $10,000 of monthly |
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