My cellphone vibrated in my pocket, curtailing Talia’s advice.
I answered it.
“Ruth?”
I could not believe what I was hearing. Lakisha’s voice.
“Hey. How are you?”
“Look, I am sorry I haven’t been in touch. I know you have been trying to reach me. I just…I couldn’t talk to you about what was going on.”
Well. I knew what was going on but I decided it was best to let her tell me.
“I guess I went into hiding,” she said.
Again hiding. Hiding from God. It never works.
I waited, thinking of all the people who had been hiding things from me. Dr. Thanatos, Dr.Margaret, Timothy, Talia, Mr. Zeller, Lakisha. Adam and Eve were definitely not alone in this particular act.
“I decided I didn’t want the baby. I didn’t tell you because I knew you would hate me. In fact, it was you that kept me from doing it for so many weeks. I had no idea how I was going to deal with being alone, trying to find child care, working full time with a baby…and then worrying about if the abortion pill reversal was going to end up with my baby being deformed…”
“How did I keep you from doing it for so many weeks?” I asked, “You didn’t even answer my calls.”
“I just kept remembering all the things you said to me. How you knew what happened in an abortion and what the baby would go through. I didn’t want to disappoint you. But I knew I couldn’t have this baby.”
I remembered that I had been determined I would be her friend no matter what. I would help her through the grieving process. I would talk about my new-found faith in God and how forgiveness and redemption were possible. I would not let her sin define her as I had let it define me for so long.
But I couldn’t say all that yet. All I could feel was sadness.
“And maybe that is a lousy reason to bring a baby into this world, but I just couldn’t stand how hard you worked to help me and having to tell you I gave up. So I couldn’t. I didn’t. I won’t. “
Couldn’t? Didn’t?
“Won’t what?” I asked.
“I won’t abort.”
“I thought you did abort!”
“No. I tried. I was on my way walking to the center when I heard a voice. It called my name. it sounded like your voice but I didn’t see you. I thought it was God’s way of saying don’t do this. So I didn’t. I don’t know what to do, but my baby is alive. I was hoping you would let Talia know…and maybe she could tell me about resources to help me.”
“She’s right here!” I said. “Let me put her on. Talk to her. Now. And then, can I meet you for coffee? I would love to talk with you. And I’m getting married. Maybe you would come to my wedding???”
“Wow. That is great news! Of course I will come. Congrats!”
I handed the phone to Talia. While she was smiling and chattering a mile a minute with Lakisha, for the first time in my life, I raised my hand to God. After all, I could no more take credit for the victories than for the defeats.
The End
Author’s Note
For over five years, I have worked as a sidewalk counselor with Charlotte Cities4Life to abortion-minded women at one of the busiest abortion clinics in the Southeast. In that context, I have also counseled many abortion workers who left the clinic when the horror of what they had to see and do each day finally overwhelmed them. Many of the stories described in this book are taken from the compiled accounts by the workers and mothers.
My desire with every book I write is to point the reader to God. When people are at the end of themselves, often true of the women at the abortion clinics, they are perhaps more able to hear the truths of hope and salvation found in Jesus Christ. I have walked many people to the Lord when the enormity of their sin threatens to engulf them.
My prayer is that this story, though fictional, will prick some hearts to turn from death to life, and to the perfect refuge and strength of God.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Other Books by Vicky Kaseorg
Listening with a Broken Ear 2011
God Drives a Tow Truck 2011
Tommy- A Story of Ability 2012
Turning Points 2012
The Illustrated 23rd Psalm 2012
The Good Parent 2012
The Well-Trained Human 2012
Saving a Dog 2014
The Tower Builder 2014
The Bark of the Covenant 2014
Poppy The Dirdty Ditch Digging Dingo 2015
The Paws That Bring Good News 2015
Joe The Horse Nobody Loved 2015
Gidget the Horse Formerly Known as Witch 2015
Gidget the Horse I Didn’t Own 2015
Gidget- The Horse That Waited For Me- 2015
Singing in the Darkness – 2016
Perhaps you Misheard my Prayer- 2016
Unlikely Friends – 2016
Unlikely Redemption – 2016
Unlikely Rescue – 2017
Unlikely Reward – 2017
Leashed to Hope – 2018
Leashed to Love—2018
Leashed to Faith—2019
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