Most of us have seen the movie “Miracle on 34th Street”, but I would like to share with you about the “Miracle on 9th Street” which is where a little homeless shelter resides far from the public eye. One afternoon as I was working, one of the young ladys asked to come to church with me. So I was able to pick her up the following Sunday and take her, where she was ministered to and prayed for by one of our wonderful prayer partners at Christian Life Church. She got a brand new Bible to take home with her, and left blessed!
A week later, she came into the shelter and asked if she could talk to me, alone. It was obvious that she had been shaken by something. She then began to unfold her story. You see, she had a child that she had given up for adoption three years ago due to the situations and circumstances in her life that prohibited her from keeping this precious child. Because of the poor choices of her past, they landed her before the court system with a conviction that cost her a year of her life. Newly married and very pregnant she gave birth only 9 days of her second child before starting her incarceration. The prison then sent her to our little homeless shelter on 9th street to wait out the rest of her time before she can go back home to her beautiful baby girl and husband who have been anticipating her home coming in Kentucky.
She stated “I have been reading the bible a lot since I got it. I have also been asking God to please give me some sort of sign that the little boy I had given up three years ago was OK.” Well on this day, she went to do her community service hanging Christmas lights downtown with a few other people. She noticed a little boy walking towards her. As he got closer, she could not help but notice how cute and how happy he was as this little boy was walking with his mom. “Then the little boy stopped and looked up at me, and said “I like your lights!” That is when she noticed it was HER little boy that she had given up for adoption. (As she wept while telling me, she still was having a hard time grasping what had happened!) “All I did was ask God for a sign?” Because guilt and condemnation from her past kept her from asking what she really wanted, the cry of her heart did not go unheard! I know that God himself had an enormous grin on his face as it pleased him to lavish his grace upon this young lady as He answered the cry of her heart! What a priceless gift she had been given, not only to see her son happy and well cared for, but she could know go home having laid aside all her fears and doubts. This little boy should remind us what Christmas is all about!
“He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted” Job 5:9
