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Gratitude
Hi Friends! If you’re in a similar space as me, you’re getting ready for Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving, or just spending time with the people you love. It’s a really busy time. Even busier if you’re in the retail world, making sure you have what the people want. Slowing down to take the time to be Grateful for what you have; Your family, friends, life, etc. seems even more difficult than it may have been last week or even yesterday. The one thing we can be confident in is that we have a loving God who is in the detail of our lives, woven through our connections with people, blessing us, and…
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When Your Problem Turns Out to Bless You
I have been working with realtors and lenders to purchase a property in Virginia for my Mom’s trust that my brother found and that he is going to manage. The lending process feels especially long because we are forced to find something due to an eminent domain. We were looking at other properties that didn’t pan out before this one, so we’ve been working with Stephanie at Fidelity Mortgage for 8 months. Finally we got a property under contract and our loan was almost fully approved except we needed a letter from Mom’s CPA stating that our “use of business funds will not negatively affect our business operations.” It had…
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A God of Infinity
This song. What a beautiful reminder of a loving God who is aware of us even if we don’t always see it. Have a beautiful week friends. God Bless.
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Prayer From a Distance
During World War II, Elder Graham W. Doxey was in the navy posted to China. He and several others went by train to the city of Tientsin to look around. Later they boarded a train to return to their base, but after more than an hour, the train turned north. They were on the wrong train! They spoke no Chinese. They pulled the emergency cord and stopped the train. They were put off somewhere in the countryside with nothing to do but walk back to the city. After walking for some time, they found a small pump-handle car, the kind that the railroad workers use. They set it in the…
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Hope
Recently my 25 year old son stopped by my house to do laundry. I was preparing to eat some breakfast which I had made the previous evening. “Hey, try this,” I said, raising a half teaspoon of chocolate chia pudding on a clean spoon. He looked at me hesitantly and did not turn his body toward me. He looked at the barely half filled spoon. He looked at me, as years of this, my normal behavior, crossed his mind. He had obviously had other experiences with chia pudding that I was not aware of, and had his own opinion on it. And yet, after a pause, he took the bite.…
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A Miracle in Prayer
A lady in her late 40’s joined our congregation last year. She was homeless at the time missionaries found her, having left her home on the East Coast and driven to the Mountain West to rent a place that turned out to be rental fraud. Eventually she got rental assistance from the government and lived in our area for 9 months. That changed however when an apartment maintenance worker discovered that her puppy had been mauling the corners of all the walls in her apartment. She got evicted. It was late September and she was looking at living in her car until she found a new place. I had a…
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Safely Home Through A Blizzard
One winter night, about 30 years ago, I was coming back from Logan to Brigham in a snowstorm, with my brother driving the truck getting ready to head through the canyon. I remember feeling this foreboding feeling like something bad was going to happen. My brother was driving very fast, just wanting to get home. I asked him if he could slow down. He agreed but then kept up the same speed. I could see on my right, a fence and an icy lake. If we slid, I worried we would might go right in the lake. At this point, I really didn’t know what else to do. It was…
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Level Up
Congratulations! You unlocked a small miracle! That’s what I think when I notice something small that I could claim as my own doing, but I’ve learned the power of recognizing God in my life. I remember once, riding home from Canada with a friend. I was sleeping in the passenger seat and he was driving. Somehow I woke up just in time to say something, waking him up enough to get back on the road. Or, what about the time I was feeling so sad and lonely, walking into a store and this man who was loading his car stopped, turned around, and said happy Pioneer Day. That completely changed…
