Hello all & God bless you,
May I ask for guidance with my lovely foster son. He's a 16 year old name is Sean, though he goes by Snowy, who has had a very hard life & has a lot from his rough lifestyle.
Since my husband died after my 4 children flew the nest, I felt called to foster care. Nearly a year ago I took in Sean - a kind, generous, charitable, & keenly intelligent boy for his age. He has a strong sense of social justice &, despite his disadvantages, he's often in the top third in his class.
He is the middle child of 5 & his mother has unfortunately passed of an overdose
However, being a socially conservative house hold, the promiscuous sexual activity with both sexes, alchohol & drug indulgences, anarchist communist politics, street activities, & late nights are difficult & have been somewhat of a culture shock - reinforced by his continued association with social circles before I knew
Finding beer bottle caps, cigarette butts, condoms, & more in the laundry have never been issues I've faced. I have spoken to him about my concerns & though he, out of respect, has assured that he isn't sexually active or consuming drugs or alchohol in my house, I know he is elsewhere.
Lastly, I want to say that he is good at heart & that he does respect me despite his antagonism to any authority. He has described that he used to sustain himself with dumpster diving & shop lifting (his lean build would suggest he grew up underfed), trespassing on sites to squat for shelter, & can even point out different graffiti tags locally. He even has a self made anti policing tattoo. However, he respects my authority in my house & is thankful as this is the longest he's stayed in one place since he turned 10.
Please pray for this caring & bright but rough & tough young man. I strongly feel God has called me to foster care, & I to enjoy this experience much of the time, but never have I ever had such a contrast of lifestyle.
He's someone who has gone through a lot of trauma & though he's resistant to the teachings of Jesus, he's a good lad & I pray that the wrecklessness of youth or the circumstances of birth don't hold him back as someone who has so much potential.
God bless!
May I ask for guidance with my lovely foster son. He's a 16 year old name is Sean, though he goes by Snowy, who has had a very hard life & has a lot from his rough lifestyle.
Since my husband died after my 4 children flew the nest, I felt called to foster care. Nearly a year ago I took in Sean - a kind, generous, charitable, & keenly intelligent boy for his age. He has a strong sense of social justice &, despite his disadvantages, he's often in the top third in his class.
He is the middle child of 5 & his mother has unfortunately passed of an overdose
However, being a socially conservative house hold, the promiscuous sexual activity with both sexes, alchohol & drug indulgences, anarchist communist politics, street activities, & late nights are difficult & have been somewhat of a culture shock - reinforced by his continued association with social circles before I knew
Finding beer bottle caps, cigarette butts, condoms, & more in the laundry have never been issues I've faced. I have spoken to him about my concerns & though he, out of respect, has assured that he isn't sexually active or consuming drugs or alchohol in my house, I know he is elsewhere.
Lastly, I want to say that he is good at heart & that he does respect me despite his antagonism to any authority. He has described that he used to sustain himself with dumpster diving & shop lifting (his lean build would suggest he grew up underfed), trespassing on sites to squat for shelter, & can even point out different graffiti tags locally. He even has a self made anti policing tattoo. However, he respects my authority in my house & is thankful as this is the longest he's stayed in one place since he turned 10.
Please pray for this caring & bright but rough & tough young man. I strongly feel God has called me to foster care, & I to enjoy this experience much of the time, but never have I ever had such a contrast of lifestyle.
He's someone who has gone through a lot of trauma & though he's resistant to the teachings of Jesus, he's a good lad & I pray that the wrecklessness of youth or the circumstances of birth don't hold him back as someone who has so much potential.
God bless!
sad. I pray for him. He needs a lot of healing from his trauma . Kids in their younger years absorbs so much in their minds that it really shapes how they see the world. I pray he gives his life to Jesus and not a life of things in this world. He seems numb to me, but that happens when your burnt out and have been through the ringer time and time again. Just keep showing him a good example. Life is so hard and down deep people pay attention to how people make them feel. Just seeing him as a person and individual. We may not think we are doing much, but actions effect others and watching how you live is a planted seed. It's really sad the life he is living, but we can't fix people. We can only work on ourselves. Just knowing he can go to you with stuff by being there for him. We may not see change, but just like the saying grandma's prayers helped people. Sometimes their grandma's never got to see the change, but they came around by remembering that after they passed away. Don't give up. America has really lost focus on Christianity. I went the longest time not even knowing Jesus was a historical person that really walked this earth. People don't realize the power of that. People just don't believe the bible is inspired and believe it was changed. They don't realize all the evidence behind it. Maybe one can't prove, but they can't unproven. 2000 yrs is a long time and that is not counting all biblical years. He was much more than a simple teacher. That is obvious, but people are really pushing the limits now. Maybe Jesus is coming soon. Not all Christians have been a good witness or Christian. It's ni wonder people don't want to talk about Jesus because of how people just go out to their down town yelling at everyone to repent. It does more damage than good and usually those people are self righteous. All it does is turn people off and make people mad.