Sometimes God gives us all a wink and a nod, and laughs alongside us, as He brings His people together in mysterious ways to carry out His will. Take the birth of little Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin. She was born just last week, and her birth certificate will forever state, “Born in Chick-Fil-A.” It’s not a marketing stunt, but rather a strange confluence of events that had dad delivering the baby inside the restaurant.
Robert and Falon (mom and dad) Griffin were on their way to the hospital on Tuesday night. They pulled into a Chick-Fil-A parking lot in Texas to drop off their two daughters with a family friend. But Falon, being 38 weeks pregnant, needed to go to the bathroom very badly. Robert knocked on the doors of Chick-Fil-A, which was closed for the night. Employees were cleaning up but did what Chick-Fil-A employees always seem to do when someone needs help – they let the Griffins in the store so Falon could use the restroom. Robert was waiting for her when the screams started.
Checking on his wife, Robert discovered that the baby’s head was crowning and quickly realized there was no way the ambulance was going to arrive in time.
“We’re gonna do it right here and we’re gonna do it right now,” he told his wife. So, they did.
Falon straddled the toilet and Robert, who is not a physician, delivered the baby right then and there (hey, if you’ve seen one delivery, you’ve seen them all, right?). Robert even untangled the baby’s umbilical cord, which was wrapped around her neck when her shoulders emerged. Anyone who has ever eaten at a Chick-Fil-A will tell you that the service is really quick, and Gracelyn Mae’s birth was no exception. She was out in just six minutes from the time mom started screaming.
Paramedics were on the way to the restaurant by then. Robert swaddled the baby in his Trump 2020 T-shirt that he happened to be wearing that night. The franchise owner of the Chick-Fil-A restaurant says Gracelyn Mae will receive free Chick-Fil-A for life and has promised her a job when she turns 16 if she wants it.
Stories like this are just not unusual for Chick-Fil-A. Any time there is a hurricane or natural disaster, it seems that Chick-Fil-A franchises are chipping in volunteers, resources and more to help out. The company’s Christ-centered philosophy makes it shine more brightly than any other fast-food franchise in the country. They make a pretty mean chicken sandwich, too.
It is the company’s Christ-based business ethic which also makes it a target of the desperately wicked in this world. Can you think of any other company that the American left has attempted to boycott so many times? Every boycott has failed, which must heap coals of fire on Chick-Fil-A’s enemies.
Instead of forcing Chick-Fil-A to go out of business or change its corporate policy, which is always the purpose of the boycotts, the media ends up reporting on lines of Christians stretching around the block as we flock to support one of the few mainstream businesses in America that does not mock our faith.
Perhaps one of the funniest stories about Chick-Fil-A stems from 2012. The Congressional Black Caucus holds a lunch meeting every week in the House of Representatives, and the members take turns providing lunch. Rep. Allen West from Florida was the lone Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus, so when it was his turn to buy, he brought chicken and biscuits from Chick-Fil-A. The other members called the media to express their horror at West’s affront to them.
“That was an ‘in your face’,” insisted Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL). “Every member of the Congressional Black Caucus that was there was offended.”
“He did it deliberately,” explained Hastings, who was apparently serious.
Gasp! Delicious chicken and biscuits from Chick-Fil-A for lunch? Why, that was practically a terrorist attack! Someone had better call the House Ethics Committee!
Isn’t it hilarious that the light of God shines so brightly, that the mere presence of a chicken sandwich will make nonbelievers fly into a fit of rage? What a blessing!
Chick-Fil-A refuses to put its light under a bushel and it shines more brightly because of that. We thought you’d appreciate this story of the Griffin family and their MAGA baby, swaddled in a Trump 2020 T-shirt after her birth in a Chick-Fil-A (we certainly did).
Congratulations to the Griffins and to little Gracelyn Mae. She’ll have quite a story to tell when she grows up, and we have no doubt that the Chick-Fil-A restaurant where she was born on U.S. 281 will still be there and will still be open for business.
~ Christian Patriot Daily
