Hope letters
Finding hope through noticing God's fingerprints in our lives.
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20/20 Vision
Today, as I had breakfast with my husband, I overheard the table next to me talking about how interesting it was that this person would lose their job, only to get a better job that made their life circumstances better. They commented how lucky she was. Hindsight is 20/20. Oftentimes we have hard things happen to us, only to see a much better circumstance come out of it. It got me thinking about an experience that I had that had an amazing outcome. When my mom was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, I was living in Sandy, Utah, running my…
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Saved by a Backpack
A father and son who were reported overdue while hiking on a southern Utah trail on Sunday survived thanks to gear that had been discarded by another hiker who had become lost. Julian Hernandez and his 12-year-old son were in the Red Mountain area near Snow Canyon State Park on Sunday when they were reported missing. Search and rescue crews were deployed just after 7 p.m. but were unable to locate the duo due to the dark skies. A member of the search and rescue team later discovered a boot-style footprint in the area where the two were missing, and…
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A Little Reminder
This is a small miracle in some ways, but all the more dear because it was such a thoughtful favor. A couple of weeks ago my sister and I planned a dinner event for a few couples. She is going to be coming into town last minute and she’ll use my ingredients to make dinner when she arrives. When we discused what she’d need,she mistakenly assumed I’d have certain items in my pantry, ie couscous and capers. I made a mental note to get them Today, two weeks later, our dinner is approaching. I was at the grocery store. I…
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He Knows What We Need
I had my little dog, Lilly, for 18 years. Her kidneys were failing, so it was only a matter of time before I lost her. Since I had lost Kris in June, I didn’t know how much more loss I could take in just a few month’s time. I was thinking about the dogs I would get when Lilly passed on. The vet suggested I put Lilly down because she wouldn’t last long. She actually got a second wind after being hospitalized for 3 days. She was with me 3 months longer than the vet thought she would last! Let…
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God’s Orchestration
For several years, I have longed to reconnect with my grandparents’ family. I felt that I could feel their longing for their family to care for each other. Beaver, Utah was their family home site. Even though my grandparents’ home was demolished, the town still holds lots of sweet summer memories that make it a special place on the map. Recently however, it had become more meaningful to me. I had reconnected with a first cousin there whom I had never known well. When her parents died many years earlier, she had fallen out of the family focus. It had…
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Listen
On Mother’s Day one year my husband unburdened me with my daily tasks and gave me time to do some family history research. I was really making some progress on my family history that I decided to work on it the next day while my boys were playing in their room. As I was working on it the thought came to me to get the boys some lunch. I looked at the time and it was only after 11 and thought it was too early to feed them lunch. I dismissed the thought and I started on my research. Not…
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The Train Ride
Sometimes it’s the little tender mercies that remind us that God is in the details. Earlier this year, our son got a mission call and was able to go to the MTC, prior to flying out to his mission which was out of state. We were excited for him to go, but it was a little hard knowing we wouldn’t see him for two years. My husband works in Salt lake and regularly takes the train rather than driving in traffic. This particular day, my husband ended up taking a train to work that was a little later than usual. …
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See The End From The Beginning
Allow me to share with you an experience from my own boyhood. When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy. To be able to do that effectively, I needed a bicycle to pull the heavy laundry cart. I had always dreamed of owning a nice, sleek, shiny, sporty red bicycle. But there had never been enough…
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A Prayer of Protection
Our family was headed to spend the weekend with my parents who were living in Providence Utah with us living in West Jordan at the time. Before we would leave to go on a trip we would make it a point of praying and asking for safety and protection while doing so. This has proved to be a blessing many times over and I’m very thankful that we have always made a point to do so. On this occasion we had made it to Brigham City and stopped at the stop light before starting up the hill that would take…
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The Dream
My dad was a brilliant accountant. He had retired from the family company and decided to pick up a few accounts to do on the side, never really wanting to retire fully. Sometimes, being the teacher he was, he would ask me to come help him balance out his accounts, teaching me little by little his business. At the time, I had a full time job. I never planned on doing accounting for a living so working with my dad was good because I got to spend time with him. The beginning of the new year, my dad found out…
