When I first gave birth to my son I was so scared and so alone. I was 19 yrs. old with no college degree and the baby’s father decided to leave.
I lost all my friends because I didn’t have the freedom to pick up and leave whenever I wanted to. I also felt what 19 yr olds were doing was what I shouldn’t be doing because I was a mom now. By having great role models as parents, I thought “..there is no way I’m going do as good a job as they did.” I really didn’t know what I was going to do or where I was going to go. The future looked very bleak.
One morning at 6:00 AM I was awoken by my hungry, crying child. I was so tired. I had just been up at midnight and 3:00 AM feeding him.
I had to be at work at 8:00 and have myself and the baby out the door by 7:00 so I could get him to daycare.
I was sitting there feeding my sweet baby, thinking “How am I going to do this?” “He is only a month old and I am already exhausted.”
I felt a wave of guilt come over me. I was thinking my child deserved better. I just wanted to give up. It was dark outside and I felt despair inside.
And then, I looked up out into a huge bay window and saw the sun rising behind the trees. At that moment I said to myself “You can do this!”
Out of darkness there is light and that light is hope.
I always thought it was a sign from God.
Lynn–Farmington Hills, MI
Please email your God ’sightings’ to dan@seegodtoday.com or mail them to See God Today? P.O Box 206 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303.
I saw God in a bird in my yard
I was sitting on the patio this evening, reading a book and enjoying the last of the sun’s rays of the evening, when a big fat robin visited my yard. He was so beautiful, I made me think of God. I had to thank God for all of his creation. A minute later he flew away and then I noticed all the birds in the area singing away. The robin decided to visit me again, only to serenade me from the phone line that runs near my patio–the best music ever!