Episode 125: Finding Collateral Beauty in Brokenness
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Britanie Ramirez and her family have said “yes” to opening their home 26 times. Like all of us, Britanie started out with some preconceived ideas about the goal of fostering but, through her journey, God has taught her about the meaningful and challenging realities of stepping into a family’s brokenness. In this conversation, she shares about seeing collateral beauty in brokenness, recognizing what we’re actually rooting for as foster parents, why it’s 100% worth it to step into foster care, and reminders to celebrate the small wins. I know you’ll be encouraged by this one!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | If we're able to carry that weight so that they can have the freedom to smile again, then it's worth it. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, it's worth it. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | If you are part of the foster care community, |
| 0:30.5 | passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more, |
| 0:34.8 | we are so happy to have you. |
| 0:36.5 | I am very excited to share today's episode with you. |
| 0:40.8 | Brittany Ramirez and her husband Adrian have been fostering for seven years and have opened their |
| 0:46.3 | home to children 26 times. Brittany is a family therapist. She's the executive director of a |
| 0:53.5 | nonprofit serving marginalized populations, |
| 0:57.2 | and currently she's a mom to seven children, two of which have come to their family through |
| 1:01.9 | adoption. I love their family motto. See a need, fill it. And I think you'll both be encouraged |
| 1:09.5 | and challenged by this conversation today. |
| 1:13.0 | She is so open about what her thought process originally was towards the biological families of |
| 1:18.3 | children in her care, the collateral beauty, by the way, I love this phrase, the collateral |
| 1:23.8 | beauty that we see when we endure through the brokenness and why this is all 100% |
| 1:30.9 | worth it. Are you ready? Let's get right to it. Here is my conversation with Brittany Ramirez. |
| 1:43.2 | All right, well, Brittany, I first read your family motto when I was doing some prep for this |
| 1:49.8 | interview, and that is Cianid fillet. |
| 1:53.7 | And I immediately knew when I read that I was going to like this girl. |
| 1:57.5 | I'm excited to get to know you. |
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