A nurse said yes when a dying mother asked her to raise her son. This simple act of love changed two lives forever.
Sometimes God asks us to do something that feels impossible or scary. When those moments come, we have to choose between our comfort and His call. And one courageous nurse answered that call in an incredible way.
A Meeting That Changed Everything
Tricia Somers walked into Pinnacle Health Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, fighting for her life. She had a rare form of cancer and was recovering from surgery.
At 45 years old, she was scared and alone. Then Tricia Seaman walked into her room.
Seaman was a nurse, but she was different. Somers felt it right away. “Before she even said anything I just felt comfort,” Somers said.
“It’s almost like somebody just put like a warm blanket on me.” Somers had never felt such peace with another person before.
Nurse Seaman loved her job. She had helped many patients over the years. They often thanked her and praised her work.
But what happened next was unlike anything in her career.
The Hardest Question a Mother Could Ask
Somers got terrible news. Her cancer was terminal. She was a single mom with an eight year old son named Wesley.
She had no family to help her. No one to take care of her boy when she died.
That’s when Somers did something that took incredible courage. She looked at this nurse she barely knew and asked the hardest question of her life.
“I have something that I need to ask you,” she told Seaman. “Can you take my son will you raise him if I die?”
Think about that moment. A dying mother asking a stranger to become a parent to her child.
Somers saw something special in this nurse. Something that made her believe Seaman would love Wesley like her own son.
A Family Opens Their Hearts
Seaman went home and talked to her family. They said yes. But they did more than just agree to take Wesley. They invited both Wesley and his mom to live with them.
This meant Somers wouldn’t have to spend her last days in a nursing home. She could be with her son. The Seaman family made this possible through their kindness.
“They needed to be together,” Seaman explained. When Steve Hartman pointed out this was more than Somers had asked for, Seaman said, “It is But that’s what we’re supposed to do more than we’re asked.”
Seaman wasn’t just speaking as a nurse. She was speaking from her heart as a person of faith.
A Young Man Grows and Thrives
Eleven years have passed since this story began. Somers has died, but her son Wesley is thriving.
He lives with the Seaman family and is now 19 years old. He’s in college and thinking about becoming a nurse himself.
“He has turned into such a fine young man and his mom would be incredibly proud,” Seaman says about Wesley.
The love she poured into this boy is showing. He’s become the kind of person who wants to help others.
When Steve asked, “What do you think she[Somers] saw in your now adoptive mother?” Wesley was quick to respond:
“You meet her and you just automatically know that she just has a caring spirit and just she’s a one of a kind nurse,” he says.
Our Turn to Say Yes
Nurse Seaman could have offered kind words and good care, then gone home to her regular life.
Instead, she opened her heart and her home. She chose love over convenience. She chose faith over fear.
We don’t know when God will put someone in our path who needs help. We may never face a request like the one Tricia Somers made. But we will have chances to show mercy to people who are hurting.
When those moments come, we can remember Nurse Seaman. We can ask God for courage to say yes when He calls us to love someone.
We can trust that He will use our willingness to create something good from hard situations.
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