A Sign of Fulfillment
by: Angel Friend Darlene Boesch

Saturday Ramblins, Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 9, 1999)

I had a dream one night about a baby girl with brown hair. I never thought that it might have been a picture from the past. The baby girl actually arrived did not arrive in a car-seat, but by the transportation of the Office of Community Services with foster care. She is 10 years old. I thought that God wanted me to parent another newborn child into this world, but his plan was different for me to reach my goal.

If ever any child needs love, support, protection and care, then it is a child who comes into foster care. Raising a biological child is a job in itself. Fostering a child is a whole new ball game. God has been at my side the last few months as I have been this child's mother, confidant, protector and provider. Surely the angels are watching over her.

When people say that they see "signs" from God, my sign was an actual sign. After trying to conceive a fourth child for more than three years, an advertisement I had passed for many years caught my attention. I was feeling guilty for wanting another child after having three beautiful daughters, and wondering why God was making me ache to experience parenthood once again.

The sign said, "A family is something most of us take for granted: Foster or Adopt." That was it. That was my calling. My husband and I went for coffee that night at Denny's and we discussed foster parenting as option - to add to our family. We decided that we loved the idea. God gave us the sign and we ran with the idea.

Almost one year after we attended classes and were certified, we are fostering our first daughter. We now know why God gave us the ache to become parents again. Nothing can take the place of the rewards that foster parenting has brought us in our lives the last few months. God has called us and given us a sign. How many people can actually say that is was really a billboard?