I am becoming more and more fascinated by the wonderful way the Lord leads us and prepares us. Three years prior to Christopher's birth, Woody and I had become youth sponsors in the high school class of the church we were attending. This was the beginning of the fulfillment of a burden that the Lord had laid on my heart when I had accepted Him as my Lord and Savior in my sophomore year in high school. And it was a joy! I remember shortly after leaving the church the night I became a Christian knowing that someday I would serve young people. Here, nearly ten years later, this burden was being fulfilled. Two years after becoming youth sponsors, still nearly a year before Christopher's birth, I began to feel the Lord directing me to start a class for college age students at the church I was attending. At that point in time, I was leading a small high school prayer group at our house. Although I enjoyed it, the idea of teaching a class of collegians was intimidating to say the ve...
The phone rang in my office and I answered only to hear the distraught voice of my wife on the other end of the phone. She was at the doctor’s office and she had some bad news. "The doctor says I have toxemia," she said in a sad voice. "My blood pressure is elevated and I have a higher than normal amount of protein in my urine". "What does that mean?" I responded. "It means that I may have to stay home from work. Dr Braid said that toxemia is fairly common, but it can be serious. I have to come back next week for another test. Will you come with me?" she asked in that voice that I could never refuse. "Of course," I replied. Surely the doctor has made a mistake. Or if he hasn't, the Lord will heal her, I thought to myself. After all, it was earlier in the year that we had become aware of the millions of babies who were being aborted in America each year. God wouldn't let anything happen to our baby, I reasoned. He would rem...