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Advent: Welcome, Child.

12/20/2021

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​It’s Advent—the season of preparation and anticipation.
 
I love Advent, maybe as much as Christmas. I love the whole month of December, actually, and I love spending it in celebration. I love the decorating, the baking, the weather changes. I love making lists and checking them twice. I love the music and the good cheer. I love shopping for gifts and wrapping them and placing them beneath the tree.
 
I love this sort of preparation. I love having everything ready for the celebration to come. Maybe it’s the control freak in me, I don’t know, but I love feeling ready.
 
It is appropriate then that I am spending this Advent season in another sort of preparation—we are likely getting another foster placement by January: a teenage girl.
 
It’s an interesting parallel, that these two seasons of my life are overlaid in this way. I’m currently nesting, getting the bedroom and bathroom ready, cleaning and dusting and washing bedding. I am preparing my home for this child, much like we prepare our hearts for the arrival of Christ at Christmas. There is a spirit of welcoming in this sort of preparation. It is an anticipatory joy. Such celebration shows care. Such preparation shows sincere desire. It says, You are wanted in this place. You belong here. I am ready for your arrival.
 
I want to be ready to welcome this new child. I am spending this time in preparation, anticipating the connection we will forge, the bond we will have. I am hoping that this spirit of welcoming that I’m trying to cultivate with clean sheets and fresh toothpaste is akin to the Christmas spirit all around us—peace and goodwill, hope and connection.
 
Welcome to our home and our hearts, new girl.
 
You already belong.

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lea nowak
12/20/2021 02:05:26 pm

Your last line says it all! Praying for good connections.

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Rachel Olson
12/21/2021 08:12:21 am

Thank you for opening your hearts and your home. Have a blessed Christmas. With love and prayers, Rachel.

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Sharon
12/20/2021 07:16:00 pm

God bless & keep you. You have so much love to give and such a willingness to be used. Merry Christmas 🎄

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Suzanne Martin
12/22/2021 02:20:57 am

This is such a wonderful calling that you are taking. who knows what this child has endured before you welcome her but for sure she will feel the love and warmth that you and Brett both exude for these children! Blessings on you all!!

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