A Treasury of Miracles for Teens: True Stories of God's Presence Today by Kingsbury Karen
Author:Kingsbury, Karen [Kingsbury, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Age Range 2 Older Audience
ISBN: 9780446554749
Amazon: 044655474X
Goodreads: 8441059
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2003-05-02T07:00:00+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 heâd 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 temperaturesâa 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, couldnât it?
Just that morning heâd gotten into a fight with his parents over the issue.
âSon, weâve prayed about your future since you were a little boy.â His mother put her hands on his shoulders and gave him her best sad look. âListen to what Godâs telling you to do. Please.â
Okay, fine. He would listen to God ⦠if only he could hear him. God didnât just talk to peopleâat least not confused teenagers like himself.
Kody laced his hiking boots, slipped on a parka, and set out. His parentsâ 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 heâd heard about, anyway.
Kody shrugged and zipped up his coat. He had a woolen hat and gloves and thermal underwear. Heâd be fine. The clouds were too far off to worry about. But the breeze was stiffer than heâd 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 didnât 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 heâd held on to even through middle school? He was going to be a doctor, wasnât he? An emergency room doctor, smack in the middle of chaos and confusion, life and death. Kody had figured heâd 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.
âYou better get with the program, Kode-ster,â his older brother told him. âYouâll take a lifetime of science and math before you get that medical degree youâre after.â
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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