Amanda Rector was reunited with her biological son in a Walmart. The two of them hadn’t been together for 18 years. Amanda’s story with her son begins back in 2004. She was struggling with addiction when she gave birth to her 2nd son, Hunter, now 19 years old. RELATED: 2 Sisters Put Up For Adoption In The Late 1940s Find Each Other After More Than 70 Years She Wasn’t Allowed To Take Hunter Home After Birth When Hunter was born, he was dependent on opioids and quickly removed from Amanda’s care. Jameson, her oldest son, had already been removed. Amanda told Today, "I hated myself for using when I was pregnant. When Hunter came out he was so uncomfortable, and my heart ... I just shut down. I knew if I looked at him for too long, I would start to hurt and I couldn't feel that hurt.” They asked her about car seats and a crib, but she didn’t have either. She wouldn’t be able to take the baby home. At the time, she was living with an abusive boyfriend but also declined an extra night in the maternity ward. A few days later, she brought her boyfriend into the ER for an injury. It was then that she started to realize how bad things had gotten. Looking at her reflection in the elevator, she took in her appearance and didn’t even recognize herself. Amanda Got To See Her Baby “We were waiting for a good two hours before it even occurred to me that I could go and see the baby," Amanda said. She then went to the nursery to see her baby boy. Hunter was sleeping and asked a nurse if she could see him. The nurse remembered Amanda and offered kindness, telling her she could. “I looked down at him and started whispering in his ear, ‘I'm so sorry. This is not me. I'm so sorry that this is your life,'” she said. Hunter was adopted by a family in town four months later. It wasn’t too long after that that Amanda was sentenced to serve five years in prison for armed robbery. She ended up serving 2.5 years of that sentence. RELATED: Mom Hunts for Son She'd Given Up for Adoption Only to Discover They Work in the Same Hospital Amanda Found Jesus in Prison On her first day in prison, she made a significant change. One that led her to be free to be reunited with her biological son years later. A choice that changed everything. She found Jesus and started to work on changing her life for the better. She started going to 12-step meetings and even joined the choir. “Anything that was positive or healthy, I did it,” recalled Amanda. She knew she had to change the road she was on. God Showed Amanda That Her Son Was Happy She had a few Hunter sightings over the years, including when she took her son Jameson, whom she regained custody of, to a fundraiser. “He had this bright red hair and pale complexion," Amanda told Today about when she spotted Hunter all those years ago. She told Jameson that Hunter was his brother. “Right as he looked over, this happy music came on over the intercom and Hunter started dancing,” she said. Amanda felt a peace come over her at that moment. She felt like it was a message from God letting her know he was happy. Recently, Amanda and her son Jameson, now 21, were at Walmart when he started talking with a teenage girl. She had asked him his name, and when he told her, she pointed to a young man and said, “That's your brother.” RELATED: Katie Page Adoption Story Has Divine Twist When God Brings Adopted Son's Sister To Her Doorstep Amanda Was Reunited With Her Biological Son In Walmart And sure enough, it was Hunter. Amanda learned that Hunter had become curious about his biological mother and had discovered her identity. "I was speechless,” Amanda said. “I couldn't believe it was happening." Amanda was worried he might be mad at her or even cuss her out. But luckily, she didn’t have to worry about that. She reunited with her biological son right there, and they greeted one another with a warm hug. "I had just been talking about wanting to meet Amanda and then she appeared," Hunter told Today. "If I wasn't God centered, I don't believe any of this would have happened." The two exchanged phone numbers and talked about getting together. Hunter and Amanda See Each Other About Once a Week “As soon as they were out of sight, I just broke down sobbing,” Amanda said about being reunited with her biological son. Hunter now sees Amanda about once a week. In one of her TikToks, she talks about how he and his girlfriend were over at her house and mentioned she needed to paint her porch. They offered to help her, and you could tell how amazing that made her feel. Amanda has been sober for more than 17 years and is a certified peer support specialist who helps others with substance abuse. She also shares stories and answers questions about her time in prison on TikTok. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Kelly Clarkson Loses It When She Hears The Thomas Rhett Adoption Story Amanda has totally turned her life around, and it is so inspiring. God definitely has been watching out for Amanda. From her time in prison when she found Jesus to the chance encounter in a Walmart where she got back in touch with her son. We wish her the best as she continues on this road of love and redemption. “And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.” – John 16:22 WATCH: Amanda Shares The Story Of Reuniting With Her Biological Son @prison_story Imagine wondering for 18 years if he hated you only to find out he saw it as an act of love #adoption #birthmom #update #grace #forgiveness #Jesus #God #HolySpirit #setfree #recovery ♬ original sound – Amanda Dove LISTEN: Tom Selleck Is Still Married To His Wife After 40 Years | Bus Driver Buys PJs for Tearful Boy For Pajama Day h/t: Today Featured Image Credit: Facebook/Today Parents The post Mom Gave up Her Son for Adoption, Then Runs into Him 18 Years Later at Walmart appeared first on GodUpdates.

The Dutch government confirmed plans to vaccinate chickens against bird flu, claiming vaccines for laying hens are effective in practice. BREAKING: The Dutch government has confirmed plans to give bird flu vaccine to egg laying hens. Will you be eating the vaccinated eggs? — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) May 28, 2024 Per Reuters: Bird flu vaccines for laying hens are effective in practice, the Dutch government said on Tuesday, while confirming plans to vaccinate poultry against the virus that ravaged flocks around the world and is raising fears about human transmission. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has killed or caused the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry globally in recent years, most of them laying hens, which sent egg prices rocketing. Research in the laboratory of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) early last year had already shown that two vaccines against bird flu, produced by France’s Ceva Animal Health and Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, were effective against the virus but there had been no experiment on a farm. “In September 2023, 1,800 day-old chicks were vaccinated against bird flu. The results show that the two tested vaccines are effective against infection with the virus eight weeks after vaccination,” the Dutch agriculture ministry said in a statement. “The fact that the vaccines work in practice is a very important step towards the large-scale vaccination of poultry against the bird flu virus,” it said. #Birdflu vaccines for laying hens are effective in practice, the Dutch government said, while confirming plans to #vaccinate #poultry against the virus that ravaged flocks around the world and is raising fears about human transmission. https://t.co/masyaPfnhB — European Supermarket Magazine (@esm_magazine) May 28, 2024 In addition to vaccinating chickens, there may also be a push to inoculate poultry and dairy workers that health officials claim are ‘at-risk’ for bird flu.   This is so unbelievably stupid. The U.S. government is “looking closely” at the possibility of vaccinating farm workers and others for the bird flu…. AKA pink eye. pic.twitter.com/GAqLNNjafj — Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) May 28, 2024 From the New York Post: The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic. U.S officials last week said they were moving bulk vaccine from CSL Seqirus (CSL.AX), opens new tab that closely matches the current virus into finished shots that could provide 4.8 million doses of vaccine. European health officials told Reuters they were in talks to acquire CSL’s prepandemic vaccine. Canadian health officials said they have met with GSK (GSK.L), opens new tab, maker of Canada’s seasonal flu shots, to discuss acquiring and manufacturing a prepandemic bird flu vaccine once its seasonal flu production capacity is freed up. Other countries, including the UK, are discussing how to proceed on prepandemic vaccines, scientists said. The actions follow the explosive spread of a new strain of bird flu that emerged in late 2020 and has caused unprecedented numbers of deaths among wild birds and domestic poultry and has begun infecting many mammal species. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden noted the symptoms for the first two human bird flu cases in the United States amounted to “just pink eye.” So far, just pink eye in 2 farmers. And if it turns into something more serious, no one will listen… they’ve destroyed all credibility. pic.twitter.com/sZXGPUNs0T — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) May 24, 2024

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has endorsed Donald Trump for president in the 2024 election. “We need President Trump back in the White House to get our country back on track and correct President Biden’s failures,” Grassley told the Daily Caller. “High costs at the grocery store are hurting Iowa families and Biden’s open border policies are jeopardizing the safety of America’s families. There’s no question who I’ll be supporting in November: Donald J. Trump,” he continued. EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Grassley Officially Endorses Trump For President https://t.co/iHIsUqfCq0 — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 28, 2024 Daily Caller reports: Grassley, who is the longest-serving senator, was reelected to his eighth term in 2022 and was endorsed by Trump. Before the Iowa caucus, Grassley held off on making an endorsement, saying: “I do not plan on endorsing, and I believe that Joni Ernst has the same view I have. And the reason we haven’t endorsed anybody is because when there were 13 candidates, we wanted everybody to come to Iowa and keep Iowa first in the nation.” Grassley has been serving in the Senate since 1981. Grassley, 90, is the oldest U.S. senator. Although most Republican senators have endorsed Trump for president, there remain a few holdouts. Wikipedia lists the following Republican senators who oppose Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) From The Hill: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Wednesday he would “absolutely not” vote for former President Trump over President Biden in November, pointing to Trump’s foreign policy views and his character. “No. No, no, absolutely not,” Romney told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” when asked whether he would support Trump over Biden. Wikipedia noted that Collins and Murkowski endorsed Nikki Haley. The Hill reported: Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), in Sunday interviews, would not say whether they would endorse former President Trump’s bid for the White House. Rounds, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” avoided explicitly endorsing former President Trump but did commit to supporting the eventual nominee – who, at this point, is presumed to be Trump. BREAKING Republican Senator Todd Young says he will NOT support President Donald Trump's nomination. Is this guy the new Mitt Romney? pic.twitter.com/i6JSNSRZPu — Pro Swing Trading (@Pro__Trading) March 8, 2024 From WEVV: U.S. Senator Todd Young says he will not support former President Donald Trump in his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination. Young spoke about Trump’s take on the war in Ukraine, where Trump says Putin is not a war criminal and will not take sides as the war wages on. Instead, Young says what Hoosiers decide to do is their choice. Young says, he does not know who he will support for the party’s nomination.

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