My Salvation

About eight months ago I found out I was pregnant. I had no family or friends to turn to. The few people that I called friends kept giving me unsolicited advice on the option of abortion and how it would be impossible for me to raise a child on my own. I began to think that I was crazy for wanting to keep my child.

Being of Jewish faith I have no idea how I rationalized going to a Christian pregnancy center but I did anyway. There I met a woman who wanted to pray with me and to help. I wanted help but not the prayer. She told me about the option of a maternity home and helped me fill out and send the application forms. Going into a maternity home was the last resort. So I forgot the whole thing.

About another month went by and my options were running out. I was about to be on the street. I went to my Rabbi and he gave me several numbers. The only person I got through to was a house mother of a maternity home in Fort Lauderdale. I told her that I had no where to go and that I needed her help. A short time later she called back with good news. There was a lady who was willing to let me stay with her until I could get a permanent place. I thought, "Great! What kind of weirdo would open their house to a complete stranger?" That weirdo turned out to be one of the most important people to me. She and her family opened their home and their hearts to me and I am so grateful for that. I wasn't meant to stay there for long. I soon found out that I had an interview for a spot in the daybreak maternity home. I was so sure that I was going to a place that had one purpose: to brainwash me and suck me in to a cult. But I needed a place to stay and like my Rabbi instructed me "Just go there and don't rock the boat." Well for anyone who knows me I did just the opposite. But to my surprise I did not put myself into another bad situation. The people at Lifecare loved me.

The church family at First Baptist of West Palm Beach and the volunteers and staff at Lifecare showed me the love of Christ.

I didn't want to be a person who had to be broken to come to the Lord. But sometimes that is what it takes for a person to know that he is the only source for salvation. But in that brokenness it is great to know that God is right there waiting with places like Lifecare ready to put the pieces back together and and get a new life started