My Story

Dear God A Foster Child's Journey Through Too Many Homes to Count, Faith, Family, and Purpose At four years old, Robert Holland entered the foster care system and began a journey through more homes than he could count. Along the way he faced abuse, neglect, rejection, loss, and the constant uncertainty of never knowing where he would sleep next. While other children wrote in diaries, Robert wrote letters to God.

Those letters became his refuge through years of foster homes, residential facilities, group homes, and unimaginable hardships. Yet through every setback, every move, and every heartbreak, he discovered that God had never left him. Dear God is a powerful true story of survival, faith, forgiveness, and perseverance.

It follows Robert's journey from a forgotten foster child to a husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur, inventor, songwriter, and creator. Through moments of pain, humor, redemption, and hope, this memoir reveals how faith can carry a person through life's darkest valleys and transform even the most broken beginnings into a life of purpose. This is more than a story about foster care.

It's a story about never giving up. It's a story about finding family. It's a story about second chances.

And it's a reminder that no matter how broken the road behind us may be, God can still write a beautiful ending. Because sometimes the most powerful words a child can write are simply: Dear God...