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One night, I was washing dishes at 11:00 p.m. I was extremely tired and I cried out to no one in particular that it wasn't fair that I was the only mom in the whole world doing dishes this late. I was gently reminded by God that He was standing there with me and my loneliness was rinsed away.

One day, I was shopping for groceries and I noticed an unusual number of men in the store. You see, it was Valentine's Day and they were buying last minute candy, cards and flowers for their sweethearts. I became sad because I did not have a sweetheart to buy me anything. Later that day, my daughter had her hands behind her back and a big smile of anticipation on her face. She held out to me a folded piece of paper with a special message on it. She was too young to read or write, but she found a creative way to say, "I love you, Mom."

Just this past Christmas, I was feeling overwhelmed at how tight my budget is. I was concerned that I would have to carry a small credit card balance for several months before I could pay it off. On Christmas Eve, I was handed a small bundle of folded bills on behalf of an anonymous giver. Later that morning, I looked at the bills and praised God that He provided just enough to pay off my credit card.

There have been many occasions that I have been here in God's house and have looked at envy at the couples sitting so close with their arms around each other. I wonder to myself if God will ever provide a godly man to be my husband. Then my precious daughter will climb in my lap and doze during the sermon (Sorry, Pastor) and I will say a silent prayer of thanks for her and for the many blessings we DO have. And I say, "Thy will be done, Lord, on earth as it is in heaven."

As many of you know, I have children with the Lord now because my selfishness overcame my instinct to protect my unborn children. I never cuddled them, tickled them, rocked them to sleep or received a hand-made card from them. It is only because of a man named Jesus that I have the hope of being reunited with my children. I testify to all of you today that there is forgiveness, healing and peace in Jesus Christ.

To the women and men who have been in-volved in an abortion, I want to encourage you to attend one of the post-abortion Bible studies at Assist Crisis Pregnancy Center. If there is any woman here today who might be contemplating abortion as a solution to a crisis pregnancy, I want to tell you that it may seem easier to abort today, but a part of you will die with that baby. Keeping your child or giving him up for adoption may seem too hard, but God promises in His Word that He will make a way where there seems to be no way.

In Genesis, Chapter 21, God gave a cool drink of water to a single mother and her son. They were rejected, homeless and without food or water.

Just as God provided for Hagar and Ishmael when Abraham and Sarah made them leave, the Body of Christ must provide for the courageous women choosing life for their unborn babies. Never-married women will soon make up the largest segment of the single mother population. The 1992 U.S. Census shows that 27 percent of single mothers are divorced, followed closely by 36 percent never-married.

It has been and will be my prayer that this local body of believers will make a concerted effort to offer the unsaved one-parent families in this community a much needed drink of Living Water.

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