Foster care is part of a greater Spiritual battle.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”  Ephesians 6:12.

I have always been aware of the spiritual battle and have on several other occasions been convinced that either myself and/or our family has been involved in this battle.  However these last 11 months have demonstrated with consistency fiery darts of Satan.

“In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.”  Ephesians 6:16

Here is a partial list of the flaming darts that we have identified/prayed about.

Lawn mower broke, chest freezer died, refrigerator died, convivence freezer died, replacement freezer did not work properly. None of these appliance are the same age and only one the chest freezer makes any sense as to what happened.  All of these happened “at the worst time and with no warning.”  They were assaults on both our finances and emotional states.

Kendall’s car windshield developed  a huge crack, Lily had a wreck in her car and was without a car for over a month,  the Tahoe has unexplained damage to the back and my car has spent a total of 8 weeks at the dealership for various issues.  My car is a 2022 and should not be having these issues.  On the way back from our anniversary trip we were unsure if it would make it home.  The entire transmission has been replaced.

We have been struggling financially this year and I have been worried about how we are going to survive however, God has provided for not only the needs of our family but has provided for all of our wants as well.  I have believe that God’s timing is perfect.

We have also had multiple attacks on our physical bodies, I currently have two big open areas of skin that I can not explain how they occurred.  Kendall developed a “staph infection” that took multiple weeks to clear up.  We also have had a stomach bug that was the first in years.

Flies-  We live in the country but we have never had some many flies in our house, even fruit flies seem to multiple randomly.  And these flies are not just in the house, they appear to target us and will literally buzz around and around until we can kill them.

Spiders-  I can’t remember the last time we had a spider in the house and yet I can think of three times that spiders have been found in E room. This is specifically traumatic because one of our worst nights involved spiders on the walls and ceilings.
Lack of sleep-  I am a person who needs regular long sleep, I can typically sleep anywhere.   E has nightmares and  they have significantly decreased in occurrence, they still occur. For example last night I was up at 2.30am and 3:30am with him.  We also have random noises that occur during the nights. Last night in addition to being awake with E my phone updated and started making sounds at 12:30am. Our chicken door has also randomly alarmed in the middle of the night.  This particular dart has drawn me closer to God, I often pray for and receive the ability to function on significantly less sleep than I typically need.

In my mind when I thought about writing this blog, I also wanted to talk about generational curses however I think that this is already long enough and provides a good description of the “battle” we are currently involved in.