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New
Year, New Baby, New Victories
January 7, 2009
Written by Angela Michael
“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” ~John Wesley
What an encouraging start to the new year! A new baby that was saved
from the jaws of death outside Hope Clinic in
Daniel
speaking with Carla in September outside Hope(less)
We prayed with her and her friend and convinced her that taking her baby’s life was not the answer. “God has a plan for you and your child. He is the King’s child, and he is destined for great things. All that baby needs is a chance.” She left the mill and promised to contact us.
Right before Christmas we were able to purchase a crib, coats for her other children, and gather other baby supplies she would be needing. A neighbor brought her to the abortion mill where we loaded her car with everything. We were still working on a few gifts for the other children for Christmas including a “Dora” bike for her 4 year old.
Carla lives in
After we witnessed along with our pregnancy resource van earlier in the
morning, we headed over to
The next two hours were unbelievable. She and her three girls were cowering on the floor of her kitchen New Years Eve as bullets were flying over her head. One is stuck in her kitchen wall. She said her labor pains were increasing, but she and her girls were afraid they would get hit if they left the floor. When she couldn’t bear the pain anymore, she returned to the same hospital where hours earlier they released her. This time they kept her as baby Sean, 8lbs. 4 oz., arrived shortly after her admittance.
“This neighborhood is much better than the last,” she told me. Can you imagine having a life like that? This goes on everyday. We are determined to try and make her life a little more enjoyable.
Carla handed this bundle of joy to me and I scooped him up. “Wow, he’s beautiful! We have been waiting for you little man. Your momma has taken such good care of you.” I inspected his broad shoulders and said, “You’ll be a football player, and you will take good care of your momma.” Thank you Lord for blessing us so. “Castles, they may crumble; dreams may not come true, but you are never all alone, ‘cause I will always, always love you.” ~Plumb
Before we departed home, Isabella wanted to see the other babies in the nursery. I hugged Carla and inquired on the extra hands she would be needing with Sean’s care and emphasized, “Rest, rest when you can.” (We mothers know how that goes. : ) I promised to send two fleece blanket sleepers to keep him warm. Carla was so thankful. She shared with us that she is saved and has been in and out of churches, but is determined to raise her children right and keep them from bad things.
We visited the nursery and it was all baby boys. Isabella said, “Mom, there’s no girls.” “That’s because we got them all.” She laughed and we thanked the doctors and nurses and checked in on Carla one more time as we left.
It is a new year and a new baby making for new beginnings. “God
has made everything suitable for its time; moreover He has put a sense of past
and future into their minds.” Ecclesiastes 3:11.
God’s gift to us each day arrives as surely as dawn follows night. No matter what came before, each day is a new beginning. Sharing daily miracles with loved ones makes an ordinary celebration extraordinary. We are leaving a legacy to younger generations to pick up the banner and follow in our footsteps; to pick up their crosses and crawl over our backs onto the barbwire and continue standing for righteousness and loving the mothers and orphans in Jesus’ name.
Be encouraged~ Angela
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