A Treasury of Miracles for Teens by Karen Kingsbury

Author:Karen Kingsbury [KINGSBURY, KAREN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780446554749
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2010-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

A Voice in the Storm

It looked like a great day for a winter hike. Kody Watts had no idea that in a few hours he’d be staring death in the face.

Kody Watts was eighteen that winter and pondering the same question all high school seniors face: What was he going to do after graduation? Never mind the snow and freezing temperatures—a hike would be the perfect chance to clear his head and consider his options.

His parents wanted him to stay close to home and attend nearby University of Michigan. If not there, then any college would do. So long as he enrolled somewhere. But Kody had other ideas. Tech school, maybe, or the Air Force. Something different and daring and adventurous. College could wait, couldn’t it?

Just that morning he’d gotten into a fight with his parents over the issue.

“Son, we’ve prayed about your future since you were a little boy.” His mother put her hands on his shoulders and gave him her best sad look. “Listen to what God’s telling you to do. Please.”

Okay, fine. He would listen to God … if only he could hear him. God didn’t just talk to people—at least not confused teenagers like himself.

Kody laced his hiking boots, slipped on a parka, and set out. His parents’ home was near several large lakes and one was within walking distance. As he reached the frozen shore, he glanced at the horizon. Dark storm clouds were gathering in the northwest. Strange, he thought. There was no storm in the forecast. Not that he’d heard about, anyway.

Kody shrugged and zipped up his coat. He had a woolen hat and gloves and thermal underwear. He’d be fine. The clouds were too far off to worry about. But the breeze was stiffer than he’d expected. He buttoned the collar of his jacket tightly around his throat. There. That ought to do it.

The lake was large but fairly shallow. Each winter it froze over, creating a layer of ice strong enough for a truck to drive across. There were years when the very middle of the ice was a bit weak. But Kody didn’t plan to go to the middle today. Just a nice purposeful hike around the perimeter. And three hours to think about his life.

What had happened to his boyhood plans, the ones he’d held on to even through middle school? He was going to be a doctor, wasn’t he? An emergency room doctor, smack in the middle of chaos and confusion, life and death. Kody had figured he’d make a great doctor because he believed in the power of prayer. And that would certainly make a difference in an emergency room.

But sometime after his ninth-grade year, Kody had begun struggling with science and math.

“You better get with the program, Kode-ster,” his older brother told him. “You’ll take a lifetime of science and math before you get that medical degree you’re after.”

That had been the first time anyone had mentioned the idea that becoming a doctor might be hard. Not just hard, but next to impossible.

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