I am the Director of a pregnancy resource center in Dearborn Heights. How have I experienced God’s love in my life? Recently, I had an interesting thing happen, where I really felt God’s hand on me.

During the Christmas season, my office, the Lennon Center, was blessed to be the recipient of several Advent Giving Trees. One church gave us many Target gift cards, which I planned to use to purchase clothes and diapers/wipes for our clients. I went to Target, counted out my cards, and made my purchases. My cart was overflowing, and it took the clerk several minutes to ring up my order, using my gift cards. Upon leaving, he handed me back many of my gift cards, informing me I still had money on them. I was very surprised, as I thought I had used up all the money on the cards.

This happened two more times when I went shopping at Target. The gift cards seemed to multiply every time I went shopping. The multiplying gift cards! Eventually, I did use them all up, or close to it. But I did feel a bit like the story of the loaves and the fish. God knew The Lennon Center needed diapers/wipes and lots of clothes and He provided them for us. I knew God was showing His love for me through this act of mercy and kindness.

[Katherine Quintana is a St. Andrew parishioner and Director of the Lennon Center, a pregnancy resource center in Dearborn Heights.]