Chaplain Jeanne

Seeking Direction from God “Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.” (1 Chronicles 16:11) A young woman was in the hospital bed with her parents and small child visiting her. When I walked in, the father told me to sit down. He proceeded to tell me that they had a story to tell - even two stories. His daughter (who was the patient) was a rebellious teenager like her father. She left home and got pregnant. Upon returning home, her dog was killed outside her home. She was devastated. She went to adopt another dog. As she was driving to get one, she saw a buck in the road. She swerved and to miss hitting a tree letting go of the wheel and then taking it back again. She only swiped the side of her car on the tree avoiding a fatal accident. She had already decided to give her baby away for adoption and still held firm to those feelings. She did not want her child raised in a home (single mom) with her parents who fought all the time. He mother was a nurse at the hospital and her father had worked at General Motors and lost his job leaving him to take care of their own children. During all this time, the young girl was having counseling and had a couple ready who wanted to adopt her baby. They came to be with her during the labor and expressed that she was a strong young woman of which the father disagreed. (Actually, I was thinking the same as this couple did). The adoptive parents took the baby, but the young mother begins to have second thoughts. She went for further counseling to make sure she was not going to do something that was unwise, and decided to keep her baby. She took him back from the new adoptive parents after having held it for 4 days in their care. I thought how sad for them. I met this little boy a toddler, who was in the room at the same time of this story, and he was very cute little boy with large dark eyes. If we are open and seeking God’s will in our lives, he will open doors and lead us in life. He will walk with us in our journey and we need not fear and make bad decisions. If we make our choices based on His Word, we will be wiser. ©Rev. Jeanne McIntosh 2011