Episode 22: Navigating the “Messy and Complicated" Path of Foster Parenting
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Brittany Lind and her husband, Joel, didn’t overthink the idea of becoming foster parents. Adoption was part of the church culture she experienced in college—it was preached and lived out on a regular basis. When they married and planned for their family, they didn’t see a difference between having biological children and adoption—they were both equally good and beautiful.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:07.0 | There's this tension in foster care where you love this child and you so badly want to keep them, but you also want to see their family heal and get better and you want to see their parents recover from whatever it is, you know, that has caused this child to come out of their home. |
| 0:33.6 | And so there's just, you have to live with this tension of wanting to keep them, |
| 0:38.1 | but wanting to do everything you can to reunite them with their family. |
| 0:58.4 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. |
| 1:05.5 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotteninitiative.org slash S2E9. |
| 1:07.9 | That's for season two, episode nine. |
| 1:10.8 | My guest today is Brittany Lind. |
| 1:13.3 | Brittany and her husband Joel are foster parents and live in Louisville, Kentucky. They have two small children and are expecting their third in June. |
| 1:21.3 | Brittany shares her heart and her life on her blog at life with the lens. wordpress.com. |
| 1:27.7 | She has also written articles for the gospel coalition and Desiring God blog. |
| 1:32.3 | You can find links to those, her blog, and those articles in our show notes at the forgotten |
| 1:36.7 | initiative.org slash S2E9. |
| 1:40.2 | I love her passion and perspective for the Lord, the kids in foster care, their families, and also her passion for getting the church involved. |
| 1:48.6 | You are going to love today's conversation. |
| 1:51.3 | Let's go to that now. |
| 1:58.9 | Three years ago, a six-pound baby boy was born and needed a home for a few weeks until more permanent arrangements could be made with family members. |
| 2:06.2 | When you said, yes, you began your foster parenting journey. Those weeks turned into months and months into years. And this past September, this precious little guy became your son through adoption. |
| 2:16.9 | Brittany, I am excited to have you on the show today. |
| 2:19.6 | I'm so curious, what motivated you to become a foster parent in the first place? |
| 2:24.3 | Yeah, you're sorry, you're making me too up. |
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