"Go with the flow" is our middle name . . .

So the cardinal rule of doing foster care is "You never know what's going on, so just go with the flow." Here is an update on the boys and their situation:
Without sharing too much information, it looks like the boys might be leaving sometime next week, most likely for another foster home. There is more to the story, but I'll just leave it at that.

It is unfortunate that they were with us for as long as they were and now will, most likely, have to have yet another transition. Honestly, we would consider keeping them, but we would have to switch over to regular foster care to do that, and we have felt called to do the receiving care. Please be praying that the placement coordinator is able to find another Youth For Christ home for them so they can continue to be with a Christian family. Also, pray for the boys. All along, Jeremy and I have been thinking that they would get to go home to their mommy from here, and now it doesn't look like that is going to happen. Obviously, she needs to be ready to have them back, for their sake . . . but it doesn't make it any easier for them. They love their mama. Also, pray for Xavier's heart. I took him to the cardiologist yesterday for his three month check-up and learned more about his condition. He has thickened heart muscles (there is a more fancy term for it, but the doc put it in layman's terms for me) and will eventually need surgery. The propranolol that he takes is very, very necessary to regulate his heart rate.

We don't know what will happen with these two little boys in the future. We know that God wanted them here for the time they have been here, and maybe part of it was so that Darius could learn as much as possible about Christ as he could in this little time. In the time he's been here, he went from not knowing what prayer is, to doing some simple "repeat prayers," to praying by himself now at meals and bedtime. He has also memorized John 3:16 for AWANA. It's hard to know what has soaked into Xavier, since he's two, but hopefully Christ's love has gotten in there somehow. Pray for them as well as their big brothers as they continue to need a lot of love and guidance.