波兰的哈利娜·帕斯托斯科在生第三个女儿的时候，决定不再生孩子了。

但是在她42岁时，她发现自己已怀孕5个月了，而且那一年，她的第一个外孙出生了。

医生对她的怀孕感到很惊慌，他慎重地警告哈莉娜，以她现在的年纪生育，最后孩子生出来很可能是残疾的。当时波兰抚养残疾儿童的设施并不能满足需要。

医生建议她堕胎，还给了她做堕胎手术的医生的联系方式。

哈莉娜在家想打电话预约，但是无人应答，只好暂时放弃。之后，她回到鲁米亚市住房部继续做会计工作。

与此同时，她的丈夫瓦雷德斯劳从女儿那里知道了妻子想预约堕胎的消息，他马上冲到她的办公室。

“这是我的决定，”哈莉娜说，“我想打掉这个孩子。”

瓦雷德斯劳跪下恳求妻子，“求你了，别打掉他。”

哈莉娜问丈夫，如果她堕胎了，他是否会离开她。

“不会，”他说，“不论怎样，我都不会离开你。”

哈莉娜被感动了。

“好吧，那就把这个孩子生下来吧。”她同意了。

三个半月后，健康的小亚当出生了。哈莉娜第一次意识到，不管人们是多么坚持自己的观点，他们都有可能是错的。如果上帝想要成就什么事，那么他一定会实现他的计划。

哈莉娜开始想知道丈夫为什么会去基督复临安息日教会做礼拜。当时波兰正处于共产主义时期，她并没有怎么思考关于信仰上帝的事。但是现在她因为自己健康的宝宝感到非常感恩，并且想要为上帝做点什么。于是她决定成为一名复临信徒。

没告知丈夫，她就开始和一位复临教会牧师一起查经学习。之后，在一个营会上，她受洗了，这让丈夫非常惊讶。

几年后，哈莉娜进入波兰的基督复临会神学院学习神学课程。在一节课上，一位唐氏综合症的男士讲述了残疾人面临的困难，这让哈莉娜深受感触。她决定写一篇关于如何照顾残疾儿童的论文。差不多在那时，她遇到了一位理疗师，给她介绍了一位残疾的10岁男孩，男孩当时住在孤儿院里。

哈莉娜很快就喜欢上了这个叫达维德的孩子。达维德在婴孩的时候就被遗弃了，但孤儿院一直没找到收养的家庭。

哈莉娜参加了一个政府项目，这个项目允许家庭把孤儿带回家，一起度过周末。于是，周五下午，她和丈夫把达维德带回家，周日晚上，再把他送回孤儿院。一个周日晚上，达维德不想回到孤儿院，他抓着椅子嚎啕大哭。哈莉娜也哭了，她决定收养达维德。

于是，哈莉娜召集家人，宣布了自己的决定。除了最小的亚当，当时他只有12岁，其他人都反对这个想法。家庭会议之后，他给父母写了一封信，言辞温柔恳切。

“不管达维德会表现怎样，我都希望他能一直在我们家。”他写道。

哈莉娜决定提前退休，这样她就可以全心全意照顾达维德。

尽管当时她已经50多岁了，法院还是很快批准了她的收养申请。

2009年7月2日，达维德回家了。

搬进来几个月后，他做了第一次腿部手术。手术结果不尽人意，医生很失望，甚至断言他以后再也无法走路。但是不论他的结论是多么坚定，他都错了。如果上帝想要成就一件事，他一定会完成他的计划。达维德又做了四次手术，现在他已经会走路了。

今年17岁的达维德，是上帝活的见证。全家一起出门时，人们都对他惊叹不已。他们连连发问，家人们也一次次地分享这上帝的奇迹和福音。他们去年还分发了200本《善恶之争》。

达维德很喜欢《圣经》，还背诵了其中很多章节。他最喜欢的是诗篇第23章。这一章总结了他生命的奇迹。

“耶和华是我的牧者，我必不至缺乏。”他说。

Two Unexpected Sons

Halina Pastuszko decided that she didn’t want any more children after giving birth to a third daughter in Poland.

But she learned at the age of 42, the same year that her first grandchild was born, that she was five months pregnant.

The pregnancy alarmed the physician, and he warned that the child might be born disabled because of Halina’s age. Poland lacked facilities to raise disabled children at the time.

The physician suggested an abortion and gave Halina the telephone number for a doctor who could perform the procedure.

From home, Halina tried to call for an appointment, but she got no answer. Giving up, she returned to her accountant job in the city housing department in Rumia.

Meanwhile, her husband, Wladyslaw, learned from a daughter that his wife had tried to call the abortion doctor, and he rushed to her workplace.

“This is my decision,” Halina said. “I want to have an abortion.”

Falling to his knees, Wladyslaw pleaded, “Please, don’t do it.”

Halina asked whether he would leave her if she had the abortion.

“No,” he said. “No matter what happens, I will never leave you.”

Halina’s heart was touched.

“OK, let’s have this child,” she said.

Adam, a healthy baby boy, was born three and a half months later. For the first time, Halina realized that people can be wrong no matter how strong their opinions. If God wants to accomplish something, He will fulfill His plans.

Halina began to wonder why her husband attended a Seventh-day Adventist church. She hadn’t thought much about God in communist-era Poland. But now she felt grateful for her healthy baby and wanted to do something good for God. She decided to become an Adventist.

Without her husband’s knowledge, she studied the Bible with an Adventist pastor. She surprised Wladyslaw by being baptized at a camp meeting.

Several years passed, and Halina enrolled at the Adventist seminary in Poland to pursue higher education. During a class, she was moved to hear a man with Down Syndrome speak about the difficulties of disabled people. She decided to write her thesis on how to care for disabled children. Around that time, she met a physical therapist who introduced her to a 10-year-old disabled boy at an orphanage.

Halina loved Dawid immediately. The boy had been abandoned as a baby, and the orphanage had unsuccessfully tried to find an adoptive family.

Halina joined a government program that allows families to take orphans home for the weekend. She and her husband took Dawid home on Friday afternoons and returned him to the orphanage on Sunday evenings. One Sunday evening, Dawid didn’t want to go back. He clung to a chair and cried loudly. Halina also cried. She decided to adopt Dawid.

Halina gathered the family together to announce the decision. Everyone opposed the idea except their youngest, Adam, who was 12. After the family meeting, he wrote a tender letter to his parents.

“No matter how Dawid may act, I want him in our family forever,” he wrote.

Halina decided to take early retirement so she could devote all her time to Dawid.

Even though she was in her mid-50s, a court judge quickly approved the adoption.

On July 2, 2009, Dawid came home.

Months after moving in, he had a first operation on his legs. The results disappointed the doctor, and he cautioned that the boy would never walk. He was wrong, no matter how strong his opinion. If God wanted to accomplish something, He would fulfill His plans. Dawid had four more operations and today can walk.

Dawid, 17, is a living witness to God. When the family goes out, people marvel at Dawid. They ask many questions, and the family replies by sharing the gospel. They have distributed 200 copies of “The Great Controversy” in the past year.

Dawid loves the Bible, and he has memorized several chapters. His favorite is Psalms 23. It sums up his life.

“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,” he said.

Thank you for your Thirteenth Sabbath Offering in 2017 that helped build a television studio for Hope Channel in Poland, broadcasting the gospel to the Polish-speaking world.