Counting the Cost / Things of Spring

Counting the Cost

Foster care is 1 mid-morning phone call and 2 frantic minutes to decide.
It is 3 hours to get ready.
Foster care is 4 visitations per week and being
5 minutes early (even if everyone else is late).
It is 6 goodnight hugs from a tiny stranger before 7 sleepless nights.
Foster care is 8 appointments in one week.
It is 9 empty promises regarding permanency.
It is 10,000 “I can’t do this”
and 10,001 “this will be worth it”.

Things of Spring

if we get to say goodbye, we will weep.
if we get to say “forever”, we will grow.
but tears or thriving, rain or growth:
both are the things of Spring.