Christina Hite

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I’m Christina. Wife. Mama of 2. Pastor. Unexpected Homeschooler. Foster Care Advocate. Coffee Lover. Jesus Follower. Dreamer and Doer.

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Eight is great! We celebrated our Kristin Joy today!

We celebrated our volunteers tonight at Imago, and I’m always reminded of just how much I love serving with these people. They’re just good humans and they make life better.

Enjoying a much-needed date night! Life has been so full lately, and I’m grateful for the chance to slow down and just be.

We met 17 years ago today. I wish I had a picture from that evening, but sometimes, perhaps often, you don’t know that your whole world is about to change when you’re just going about your ordinary life. We became friends quickly and easily. His optimism, quirkiness, and gentle confidence were such a good balance to my realism, practicality, and self-critical nature. Of course, they still are. We found a rhythm that is distinctly “us” with relative ease, and I feel like we’re developing a more refined version of that cadence. It’s steady and strong and centering. Though I couldn’t have predicted at 19 where life would take us, I’m forever grateful that I decided to say that initial “hello”.

We’re back in session. Year two of #hitehomeschool is underway! We learned so much about our family’s needs last year as we started the homeschool life, and I’m looking forward to a fun year together as we help the girls continue to learn and grow!

It’s been a fun Labor Day!

Parenting is one of those parts of life that I'm constantly being challenged. Kids change. Seasons of life change. My personal ability (or inability) to regulate myself changes. So today, I'm sharing a blog post about one of the many areas that we've decided to (or been forced to) adapt our parenting strategy. I'd love to hear about a way you've decided to parent differently and what caused you to make the change. Share with me in the comments and find the full blog post in my bio.

We were rushing out the door this morning like we seem to do every week. It’s an early wake-up call for all of us, and there’s usually some kind of curve ball that throws me off my game. As I repeated to the girls, “Let’s go! We need to go pickup the donuts for church before Breakfast Club,” I felt like I could almost hear God whisper, as the sunrise took my breath away. “Remember me? I’ve got this.” He’s good. He’s present. He’s faithful. The worries of the day or the problems of the world don’t all rest on my shoulders. In fact, the day only begins because he holds it all together. What a beautiful reminder of just how small we are, and how great he is. It was much-needed perspective in awe-inspiring colors. This is grace.

It was around 4pm on my second day in the office. My colleagues were moving in all directions – answering phone calls, following up with individuals and families in crisis, doing home visits, getting ready for court, offering support to one another, and managing whatever else the day was throwing at them. While it is a pretty fast-paced, sink or swim environment, I’m not too surprised to see the behind the scenes of the foster care agency world. We fostered. I have a good friend who was a caseworker. I’ve delivered donated items for years and I’ve seen a little bit of what their employees do. And I’m connected to other foster parents. I’ve been trained to help other parents raise kids from hard places. I’ve attended conferences, lead support groups, and preached sermons about the Church’s need to engage with this messy system. What I hadn’t yet seen, however, was specific kids waiting to find a new home. And this, my second day of work, was the day... Read the rest of my story at the link in my bio.

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