From Fostering to Forever

A short time ago, I announced that I was establishing my own design company, Becoming by Brooklyn, and I’ve spent the last several months creating spaces I love for people I love. It’s been pure magic in so many ways.

But the Lord’s been tugging at my heart, and I’ve done my best to listen.

For those of you who know me well, you know how a passion for foster care and adoption runs to my core. Lately, I’ve been watching foster parents transition to adoptive parents and sweet babies transition from fostering to forever. That’s a kind of magic that will wreck you. It’s the kind of grace and love and mercy and forgiveness that defies earthly odds; there’s a divine element derived from it. But there’s also a loss and a brokenness and a longing that will never be fully restored. The building of one family means the breaking of another. The transition for one means a tragedy for another. The weight of that truth weighs heavy on my heart.

I began thinking a while back about what I wanted Becoming by Brooklyn to look like longterm. Where did I see it in five years? What about in ten? And the raw, honest truth is that I don’t care what it looks like as long as it’s serving others well. I want it to be transformative—not only to spaces, but to lives. So, I started the quest to develop a nonprofit that will partner with foster-to-adopt parents to design a brand new bedroom for their child who is transitioning from being in foster care to joining a forever family.

If you know a family who is in the process of adopting a child from the foster care system and could benefit from a brand new room, send me a direct message. We’ll be choosing our first family to partner with over the next few weeks, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. If you’re interested in helping fund Becoming by Brooklyn’s first Fostering to Forever campaign, check out the links on our website.

Thank you all for continually believing in my dreams and fueling my passion for my work. Much love to each of you.

- Brooke