Windows 10 pulled another unexpected rug out from under my unsuspecting computing living room. It pronounced, in a rather terrifying window, that the photos that used to be stored in One-Drive and available off-line now can't be available off-line without storing them on my computer...and I don't have enough space on my computer for all of them. So all my One-Drive photos vanished from my computer.
Gulp. Only about the last three years of my life recorded in photos GONE. NO BIG DEAL.
I didn't panic. I remembered yesterday's blog where I advised that we all should go to the HEAVENLY EXPERT first, before panic attacks set in, before major coronary episodes, before hysterical screaming and ripping at eyeballs with anguish and despair. I prayed, albeit briefly.
I calmly, yes calmly, went to onedrive.com. I clicked on the word "photos." All my photos were still safely online...just no longer on my computer. My computer guru talked me through how to return the critical photos to my computer, while safely storing the others in the inexplicable ethernet.
Meanwhile, a parallel story was developing. One of the women who chose life over abortion texted me. She works full time and is trying very hard to improve her life for her children. However, with the new baby due right around Christmas, and finances already stretched to the limit, she wondered how she would be able to buy her other small children Christmas gifts. She asked me if I knew of part time work. She didn't know how she could handle two jobs, two kids, pregnancy, and Christmas, but what choice did she have?
Here is a mama, already working full time, and willing to work a second job so she could have gifts for her kids at Christmas. I HAD to help her. But how? My thoughts bordered on the same panicked, coronary, hysterical, anguished despair that Windows 10 had provoked.
Cities4Life has just started a new program called Cities4life Care Connectors. These "Care Connectors" are people who want to help the women that we front-line counselors snatch out of the abortion mill and then try to follow and assist in their decision to keep their babies. The Care Connectors might be called upon to research facilities that provide things the mamas need, or to galvanize groups to provide tangible needs. Right now, we counselors are on the front lines of the abortion mill, pleading for the babies' lives, and then trying to follow up and provide support as the mamas move through their pregnancy and birth. It is more than most of us can realistically handle. Many of us are following and helping several needy mothers.
Thus, the Care Connectors program was born. Brand new, the program hasn't really taken off yet. But today, yes the very day this sweet mama expressed new needs, one of the women who had signed on as a Care Connector asked if there was any mama she could help. She was ready and willing. I quickly wrote to her and asked if she would take on helping this mama with Christmas gifts for her kids. The care connector would be delighted to do so.
When I wrote back to the mama, and told her this, and asked if she would be interested, she wrote, "YES!!! God knows I need it!"
"Yes, He does," I wrote back, "And when you stepped out in faith to follow Him and do the right thing, He opened a heaven full of blessings!"
There's a song on the radio by Matthew West called "Do Something." I love that song. The writer laments that the world is so full of sorrow...why doesn't God do something? God responds that He did. He created you.
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If interested in helping meet the needs of the mamas who choose life, and working with the cities4life front-line counselors, please contact Daniel Parks, at dparks@cities4life.org.
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Tears.
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