Yesterday, I was standing in a cold, icy downpour with our Cities4Life team. We were all soaked and chilled. Our nurse, Courtney, who does the mobile ultrsounds on moms who choose life was lamenting that since she had switched days on the sidewalk, no women had come aboard the RV. No sooner had she said that when a car pulled out of the parking lot of the abortion center. The car stopped in front of the RV for one of our counselors, and told her she had changed her mind and would like to have an ultrasound.
Since I am responsible for training our volunteers, I was the lucky one that got to counsel this mom on the RV, and have Kyndra, newly trained for RV counseling, shadow and learn the flow of how we work with the women who come aboard. Kyndra immediately asked the young lady if she would like some coffee, tea, or hot chocolate.
The woman who thus far had shown little emotion perked up at the word hot chocolate on this drenching cold day.
“Hot chocolate! But can I have hot chocolate?” she asked.
Since we had just offered it, I wondered why she was asking.
“Will it harm my baby?”she clarified.
Remember, just ten minutes ago, this woman had been sitting in an abortion center ready to destroy her baby. Now, sitting on the RV surrounded by people telling her she could be the mama God designed her to be and we would help her, her focus and concern was to protect her baby.
God was not done with touching moments to warm my heart. We all went to the back room to do the ultrasound. Kyndra stood beside me, quietly observing as she had been told to do. The image of the baby appeared on the screen. I heard an intake of breath by Kyndra.
“That’s the baby?”she whispered to me.
“Yes,” I said, “Is this the first time you have seen an ultrasound?”
She nodded.
And then Courtney pointed to the tiny beating heart. “That’s the heart,” she said.
Kyndra burst into tears, covering her face. “These are tears of joy,” she explained, wiping her eyes.
“She’s crying over the miracle of seeing your baby’s heart,” Courtney told the young mama.
“AWWWW,” the young woman said.
I think Kyndra’s tears over the miracle of the heartbeat of a baby who a few minutes before was doomed to die was perhaps the most pivotal moment on the RV that day. The mother made a solid choice for life, and Cities4Life and Lovelife Charlotte will help her in the journey before her.
But God was not done with this string of miracles. The friend who accompanied the young lady told us that she had come to this abortion clinic over a year ago, intending to abort. She had taken one of the pamphlets that our counselors hand out to the women, and changed her mind! She left the clinic, telling no one she had chosen life. She still has our pamphlet.
Christmas is when we celebrate the greatest miracle of all. God became flesh, born a tiny baby who became a man who knew no sin, to pay the penalty of sin for us. By His sacrifice, we would be saved when we put our trust and our hope in Him. It is incomprehensible that He would do that for us, but He did.
But miracles abound every single day, and all the more astonishingly in the darkest places like an abortion center. God instantly encouraged a faithful nurse who needed that uplift. He turned the heart of a woman bent on death instead to life. He gave a new young counselor the privilege and joy of being an integral part of a little baby living to see her first Christmas.
Our ministry is dependent on volunteers and donations to continue to bring hope and help and the light of the Lord to this dark place. Please consider donating in our end of year matching funds opportunity. Click HERE for information. Or join us, and be a brave voice for the voiceless like Kyndra whose tears bathed the soul of a conflicted new mother.
Merry Christmas.
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Luke 1:44
For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
How wonderful! God is sooooooo goooooood!
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