12/05/2025
You are unique in nature. God designed you for a purpose, and you must fulfil it.
No matter how your life has been, you are not here by chance. God who created you has a special plan for you.
The following story you are about to read, curled from CareNet's publication, might reassure you that God did not make a mistake bringing you (and/or anyone else) here.
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It’s a Miracle!
Valerie Mangrum
“Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.” Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NLT)
I am a miracle! I don’t say that from pride and arrogance, but from the knowledge that I should not have been born. When I had been in my mother’s womb for almost three months, the doctors declared a miscarriage and performed a dilation and curettage (D & C) abortion. Two weeks later my mother knew she was still pregnant, and around her initial delivery date, I appeared on the scene, a healthy 9 lb. 22 inch baby, without a scratch on me!
I knew this reality from the time I was a little girl. I met the doctor who performed the D & C years later. “Valerie,” he told me, “I know I did a good job. You shouldn’t be here.” That experience reminds me every time I sit across from a woman considering abortion that life is a miracle.
God’s work is a mystery. It was never my “plan” to work at a pregnancy center. But here I am, every day, embracing my own God-given story. How I survived the D & C only God knows. But I am alive, and in the mornings, I pray that I am living God’s plan when I offer hope and a future to women frightened about the unknown.
Prayer:
Thank you, Father, for my life. Help me to live into the purpose You have for me.
Amen
God Bless,
Roland
Roland C. Warren
President & CEO
CareNet