Well, February is coming to an end. Cancer treatments are ended. Life has turned a corner in our home and we are looking at a new normal. Besides the tsunami of cancer treatment that has enveloped our lives for the past 9 months, there has been the foster factor here on the riverbank.
Arnel, our foster son turned 18, pulled his school marks up from from 50s and 60s to high 70s, celebrated living with us for a year and bought his first car. What a gift he has been to us, with his gentle faith, his loving care for Cindi through her treatment and his slow journey building a life in our home. Our dog Jake adores him and that's the litmus test isn't it?
Our three rescued and adopted dogs Sammy, Jake and Harley have been great, albeit expensive at times what with cuts and sickness and even a Quail egg blockage in the intestines for poor Harley. They are most definitely a part of the family fabric here. We saw our first "Friendly Giant" foster dog come and go last year. Maggie was a lovely 75lb. lapdog. She was with us for a few months of fostering and now lives permanently just outside of Parry Sound on the edge of a lake with a wonderful couple.
Yesterday we rescued our second "Friendly Giant" dog, an 8 year old Mastiff mix. She's probably about 15-20 pounds overweight and clocks in at about 110lbs. She's a talker and amazingly friendly. Sad story is that her owner lost his job, his disability, his home and pretty much everything and had to make the tough decision to give her up so she would be cared for. He lives out of his truck and friends basements. She would never have made it at Humane Society - probably too old to be adopted out quickly. So here we are, rounding a corner, fostering people and dogs and trying to live lives of honesty and integrity and sometimes actually getting that right.
I believe that Jesus was in the business of redeeming and because we want to follow him (although that may be hard) ... Well we believe we should be in the redeeming business too. It just makes sense to my heart. So in the midst of the dog hair and teenage laundry we foster and we love it. It has proven great for the soul...Pete
Arnel, our foster son turned 18, pulled his school marks up from from 50s and 60s to high 70s, celebrated living with us for a year and bought his first car. What a gift he has been to us, with his gentle faith, his loving care for Cindi through her treatment and his slow journey building a life in our home. Our dog Jake adores him and that's the litmus test isn't it?
Our three rescued and adopted dogs Sammy, Jake and Harley have been great, albeit expensive at times what with cuts and sickness and even a Quail egg blockage in the intestines for poor Harley. They are most definitely a part of the family fabric here. We saw our first "Friendly Giant" foster dog come and go last year. Maggie was a lovely 75lb. lapdog. She was with us for a few months of fostering and now lives permanently just outside of Parry Sound on the edge of a lake with a wonderful couple.
Yesterday we rescued our second "Friendly Giant" dog, an 8 year old Mastiff mix. She's probably about 15-20 pounds overweight and clocks in at about 110lbs. She's a talker and amazingly friendly. Sad story is that her owner lost his job, his disability, his home and pretty much everything and had to make the tough decision to give her up so she would be cared for. He lives out of his truck and friends basements. She would never have made it at Humane Society - probably too old to be adopted out quickly. So here we are, rounding a corner, fostering people and dogs and trying to live lives of honesty and integrity and sometimes actually getting that right.
I believe that Jesus was in the business of redeeming and because we want to follow him (although that may be hard) ... Well we believe we should be in the redeeming business too. It just makes sense to my heart. So in the midst of the dog hair and teenage laundry we foster and we love it. It has proven great for the soul...Pete
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