6 months back, my family and I got our first foster placement. It was an answered prayer, a gift from God. We were told this was likely going to end with us adopting this baby, because we were told that no-one else had a chance to adopt him. And up until 2 months ago, that’s what we thought was going to happen. And then our worlds were crushed. Our foster baby was being replaced with his biological father, something we didn’t know was going to happen until it was already happening. Even though we were happy for our baby that he would grow up with his father, we were going to miss him very much.

It felt like God was ignoring my prayers. I wanted this baby to stay. We all loved him so much. He wasn’t just a foster baby, he was family.

Question after question & tear after tear went by.

After 1 month (felt like eternity), we finally got to see our loved baby again. The amount of grief felt before couldn’t even compare to the amount of joy felt now.

God showed us how He was answering our prayers through it all. He wasn’t ignoring us, He was comforting us. He wasn’t letting us cry for no reason, He was letting us realize our need for a savior like Him.

Is this you today? Are you wondering why it doesn’t feel like God is answering your prayers?

Take hope dear friend, joy is coming. God is answering your prayers in the midst of your heartache.

He is with you right now, wherever you’re reading this.

“who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.” 2 Corinthians 1:4-5