Orphan boy prays in church for his mother to come for him: “I came for you,” he hears one day – Story of the day

An orphan boy was crying in a church, begging God to send his mother to come and get him. Shortly afterward he turned pale when a voice said, “I will take you.”

Children abandoned by their parents experience a chain of emotions. Six-year-old Alan was one such abandoned child and longed to see his mother, but had never had that chance.

One day, during a chance encounter at church, the little boy’s world changed. He was crying, begging God to send him his mom. He told God how different his world would be if she were with him.

“Dear Jesus, they say you hear everything. My guardians at the foster home told me to ask you for everything I needed. I want my mommy. Can you send her to me?”

Alan cried as he looked at the crucifix. His eyes were red, and his cheeks were pink and wet. “My nanny told me that you answer everyone’s prayers. So why don’t you answer mine?”

The hallway echoed with Alan’s loud screams. He was heartbroken. He didn’t want to go back to the shelter, where the children often made fun of him.

He was constantly teased that his mother would never return and that he had no choice but to wait for someone to adopt him.

“No one would be interested in taking a crybaby like you,” was one of the hardest things he had heard from other children at the shelter. Alan cried his heart out that day, demanding an answer from God.

“Alan, shhh!” his tutor, Nancy, interrupted. “You’re in a church. Be quiet and don’t cry. People are staring at you. Please calm down.”

Alan tried to control his tears. He kept looking at the crucifix until he saw a woman with a little girl enter the church. He could no longer hold back his tears and began to cry again.

“Jesus, you are not answering me. Please, I want to be with my mommy like that little girl. Why are you not answering? Why haven’t you said anything to me? Mrs. Nancy, why doesn’t Jesus answer me? You told me that He answers all our prayers, but why haven’t you said anything to me?”

Nancy looked at the boy and smiled at his innocent questions.

“I’ll take you,” a woman’s voice suddenly said behind him. “My baby, I came for you. Please stop crying.”

Alan and Nancy jumped. They turned around and behind them was the woman with the little girl that the little boy had seen moments before.

“Alan, my boy! I have come for you. I have come to take you home,” the woman said.

“Who are you? How do you know the boy’s name?” Nancy asked, hugging the little boy tightly.

“My name is Ana. I am Alan’s mother. I come here every day to see him and make sure he is okay.”

“Your son? Do you have any proof?”

Ana took a photo of herself holding a newborn baby in her arms. “I left him at the door of the shelter six years ago.”

“This is unbelievable. This is what Alan looked like when I picked him up at the doorstep on that rainy night. I heard the loud cries of a baby outside in the yard and found him there. Why did he abandon his baby? How can a mother be so cruel?”

Ana began to cry and told the saddest story of her life.

Six years ago, she was 16 and accidentally got pregnant. When she revealed this to her boyfriend, he left her and moved to another state. He even blocked her contact. Ana’s parents advised her to terminate the pregnancy, but she couldn’t do it.

“My parents told me to abandon my baby or forget about them and the legacy I would inherit. I was too naive and young to become a mother, so I left my newborn baby at the shelter and moved on.”

Ana added that she had finished college and married another man. The girl she was with, Amy, was her daughter from that marriage.

“I was trying my best, but I couldn’t forget my son. I visit this church often to see him from a distance. But after hearing him cry for his mother today, I couldn’t hold back any longer. I want to take him home with me.”

Shortly after, Ana began legal proceedings to regain custody of Alan. She took DNA tests with him, which revealed that they were mother and son with a 99 percent match. She successfully brought Alan home and reestablished their relationship, but it came at a high price.

Ana’s parents turned against her and isolated her from their lives and their will. Worse still, her husband turned against her despite knowing the truth about her past.

“I married you because you had been honest about your failed relationship with your ex-boyfriend and you had thought that you would never love that child again. But now, even your parents have disowned you.”

“Look, I’m not willing to raise another man’s child. I’m willing to financially support my daughter, but our marriage is over,” said her husband Jason, who immediately filed for divorce.

He and Anna divorced shortly after. The mother gained custody of her daughter and was delighted to have Alan back.

“Don’t ever ask us for money again,” were the last words she heard from her parents, and Ana agreed with that. She felt her life was complete, even without her parents’ approval or their money.

She moved abroad with her two wonderful children, got a good job and hopes to live a happy life.

What can we learn from this story?

• God answers our prayers. Every time Alan went to church, he would cry and ask God to send his mother to him. One day, his prayers were answered when he heard a voice offering to take him, and it turned out to be his mom.
• Don’t abandon your children and punish them for a mistake you made. When Anna became pregnant at 16, her parents told her to abandon the baby. She obeyed them and moved on, not knowing how it would affect her child as he grew up.

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