Michaela and Brandon Keilen are on a new journey of foster care, and they are overjoyed to have the honor of caring for two brothers, a newborn and a three-year-old. The Keilens don't know what the future holds or how long they will have the boys in their home. Adoption is not on the table right now, but Michaela has an incredibly selfless view of the situation. She says, "I am going to love them like they are going to be here forever, and if my heart is broken in a million pieces when they go home, I will know that I held nothing back."
They are pouring all they have into these boys, regardless of how long the placement lasts, which is an amazing testimony of God's love. You can watch the Keilens' recent question and answer video on their YouTube channel.
I would encourage you to follow the Feathered Neat blog. It is a Christian blog about foster and adoption and is so good!
ReplyDeleteBless your heart ❤️ both Michaela & Brandon! The Lord has a special calling for your tender and loving hearts!
ReplyDeleteI hope they adopt soon. They’d be really good parents to adopted children the same way as to biological children.
ReplyDeleteWhat they’re doing is truly meaningful. Even if it’s just a small part, they’re making a real difference in these children’s lives.
ReplyDeleteGod bless their selfless hearts for not holding back with these boys!
ReplyDeleteLove this couple. So Christlike and selfless. ❤️🙏
ReplyDeleteBeing a foster parent is wonderful, and good foster parents are so badly needed. However, it's a tough job and I worry this kind, naive, vulnerable couple is going to get hurt.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 10:17. It sounds like she's gone into this fully, emotionally. She is setting herself up for heartbreak and I hope her mental health doesn't suffer from it. My sister-in-law had a foster situation fail so I've seen first-hand what can happen.
DeletePain is almost certainly a part of the job, but it sounds like she's not unaware.
DeleteVulnerable maybe, but not naive. That's a little unkind. But yes I'm afraid they'll be hurt too, not becasue of naivety but because they'll have learned to love these boys and if they have to give them back its gonna be so very hard for them.
DeleteThey'll just say it was God's plan or something. They can justify anything that happens in life that way, even things they make happen to themselves through their own decisions.
DeleteThey are naive to give their hearts to children who are likely returning to a terrible situation. Wise foster parents detach a little—it’s unsustainable otherwise
Delete“Holding nothing back?” Thats not good for herself, Brandon or those babies.
DeleteThey are going to fall in love with those babies and then have to send them back to a neglectful
ReplyDeleteor abusive home with parents who are supposedly “rehabilitated”
Those children will have experienced a few weeks, months or years of a hopefully loving and stable home. Michael and Brandon will have accompanied and influenced these children in their journey. Fostering is not the same as being parents but not less valuable or less important.
DeleteTwo weeks ago our family kissed our precious little foster child (I’m the grandmother) goodbye. Yes, my daughter and son in law offered to adopt him but he wasn’t available for adoption. We gave him our all. He had medical needs but we didn’t care! We loved him and still do with our entire hearts. Now we pray daily he is being cared for, loved, played with, and kept safe. It is all we can do. It helps to know how much we loved him can not compare to how much our Heavenly Father loves him. However, it hasn’t stopped our tears or heartbreak!
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