Thank you for being a friend

This is a new friend of mine. She is six years old. She writes the best stories filled with imagination and adventure. Her favorite subject in school is math and she loves to read about people who lived long ago. Someday she wants to grow up to be a doctor so that she can deliver babies.

And you know what else... she was almost aborted 6 years ago!

Her mother found herself in crisis, and by the grace of God she came to our center. Linda, the EMC Brooklyn Center director, worked with her to help her with the situation. "I knew you when you were just a spot!" Linda tells her as she sits upon her lap and looks into the eyes of her life-long friend and advocate. She is beautiful!

What's more is that this little girl is the big sister to a baby now in her mother's womb. This child would have also been at risk for abortion had this mother not come to our EMC Brooklyn center all those years ago.

This mother is a light to the center. She is so lively and friendly, sharing her advice on everything from stretch marks to breast feeding! What a witness to life! She tells the girls that her daughter, the one in this picture, is the light of her life... and you can tell that this is true! I am honored to have heard their story.

Now this little 1st grade girl dreams of becoming a doctor... an instrument of life... healing hands to many... and the voice of comfort and counsel. She already changes lives for the better-- because she changed mine. Her story showed me the importance of every encounter that I make during my time here with EMC. There is no end to the change that one life can make in the world. Sometimes I get bogged down with this work. Sometimes it is more than I can bear. When this happens, I will remember this little girl. I will hold on hope and persevere because of the promise that exists for every human life.

Thanks friend!