Exhaustion has set in...

Let me tell you, I barely dragged my body out of the bedroom tonight after tucking Caleb in.
The lights off, PJ's on already...I was really tempted. After implimenting the new schedule at Casa Alba this week, I am ready to sleep for about 24 hours straight.
The new schedule isn't just doubling my past schedule there, but including brand new programs which required and will continue to require a lot more planning and preparation.
And, some of these programs are focusing in on connecting Jesus with our hardest-to-reach kids...it wears on every nerve, muscle and Fruit of the Spirit : )

On my walk home today after the final activity of the new week I thought "Okay God, is this too much? Alright, let me rephrase that - You've got Your work cut out for You!"

But to think about what could happen with these kids and their journeys with Jesus...that makes it worth it.

Casa Alba may only be around for another year to 2 years. Plans are in progress to start building group foster homes for our kids. There have been such few glimmers of hope that these children will get adopted or even into a foster family that FCE has had to reconsider placement for these kids. Although these plans may change, FCE is feeling that building 3 homes with about 6 children in each, is going to be the only option. Like I said, plans change though.

I would love to see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit over these children...this week they started praying for each other and for families. I don't think they have ever been encouraged to do that before.

I can't make these kids love Jesus or make them grow in their relationships with Him. I can't heal their hearts and their abandonment wounds. I can't fix their seemingly endless behavioral problems. I can't stop them hitting each other and constantly saying hurtful things.
What I can do is open doors for them to Jesus. Jesus works out the rest with them...

I feel very strongly that praying for each other and praying for families is one of those doors that God wanted me to help the kids open this week.