I’ve written before about the miracle that brought me to Guideposts. Well, the other day I discovered I wasn’t alone! Sandy Wisor, who works for Guideposts OurPrayer Ministry, was also led to our company in a pretty amazing way.

Here’s her story…

In 2001, my mother’s kidneys shut down for a second time. After much discussion, we decided it was time to go in for donor testing. We contacted the Albany Medical Center transplant team in upstate New York and attended a general meeting on kidney donation.

Every meeting attendee was given an information packet, including an inspiring story–How Could I Ever Say Yes?–about a daughter who donates her kidney to her mother.

The article was published by a company I’d never heard of before–Guideposts–in Angels on Earth magazine. After reading it, I was determined to become my mother’s donor. I’d do anything for Mom, especially if it meant she’d live a happier, healthier life off dialysis.

While waiting for our blood test results, we prayed for good news. A few weeks later, we discovered I was in fact a match–one out of six antigens to be exact. It was a true answer to our prayers!

Over the next several months, Mom and I spent quality time together in prayer and even started exercising to get ready for the big day. Whenever I felt nervous, I reread that Guideposts story.

Finally the time came to prepare for the surgery. We traveled to the Albany Medical Center twice so that Mom could receive a blood transfusion from my unit of donated blood.

Shortly after, I received a call at work from the transplant coordinator. She said the second transfusion results had turned positive, which meant that I could no longer be Mom’s donor. It broke my heart to tell Mom the surgery was off.

Thankfully, a few months later, Mom received a kidney transplant from an anonymous donor. Of course, I was overjoyed that everything worked out. But I couldn’t help but wonder.

Why did God have my mother and I go through all that–the surgery prep, the non-stop praying, the blood transfusions, the endless tests–if I wasn’t meant to be her donor? And what was the purpose of reading that article? It seemed pointless.

I got my answer a year later. I was flipping through my local newspaper when something caught my eye. A job listing at Guideposts. I wouldn’t have recognized the name had it not been for that story. I applied to the position and started my job as a prayer associate for Guideposts OurPrayer Ministry.

I quickly realized God had been training me for that job all along through my mother’s situation and that article. One of my new responsibilities was answering calls on the Guideposts prayer line and responding to online prayer requests.

I could relate to so many of the prayers we received. I too had faced uncertainty, fear, doubt and anxiety, especially with my mother’s illness.  

Today, I’m the Senior Prayer Associate at OurPrayer and I am truly blessed with a wonderful job supporting volunteers globally and reaching out and lifting up those in need of prayer.

Life lesson: God knows exactly what He’s doing, even if we don’t!

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