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He Knows Best
Late last year I was struggling a great deal in my job as a manager. The stress was becoming too much, and my employees were trying to take advantage of me. I kept praying that God would find me a new job or position at work where I wouldn’t be in management anymore, but I could still raise my young family. Things didn’t seem to be going anywhere and so I tried to take matters into my own hands and I asked for a temporary position in a different department as a manager. To my amazement they said yes and I thought it was all I could have wanted especially…
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Earthly Angels
car with a flame from the back
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Thank God for Redirected Prayers
I had the coolest experience today. I was thinking about this house we are planning to build. It’s really been a strain. We’ve gone back-and-forth, over and over about if we should do it or not. Today, which is Sunday, I thought, “Well, let me really go pray about this.” I went to my bedside and knelt down. (My husband was not home.) I then began to pray about the house and I did so for maybe 3 or 4 minutes, when my son’s name came to mind. Suddenly I was filled with a great desire to pray for him. I began to ask the Lord what I could do…
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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 first company, Utah Property Solutions. We secured bank owned properties,…
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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 crews used that to track the father and son. The…
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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 remembered I had an assignment, but could not remember the…
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What Really Matters
When I was little, about 5 or 6, I watched a show on TV about a man doing tricks. He did this trick where he moved this pencil with his mind across the table. Boy was I impressed! I thought for sure I could do that simple trick if he could! I went into a quiet room, put a pencil on the floor and got to thinking. I really tried hard to move that pencil. It didn’t budge. For a long time I wondered why I couldn’t do it when this man on TV could. As I got older, I realized it was just a trick, and he was a…
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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 been years since I’d seen her, and had begun catching…
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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 5 minutes later one of my sons came to me…
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The small ask
I admit, sometimes I feel this cloud of discouragement just over my head, threatening to pour down rain on me. I know how real depression is and sometimes it’s a daily battle. This one particular morning, I was heading to the Temple to worship. The cloud over my head this morning was heavy. I needed to know my Heavenly Father loved me so I asked Him for a tender mercy. Maybe an “I love you” just from God. I said Heavenly Father, can you make sure there is a parking spot in the second row? I had enough faith for this simple ask, and so I drove down the second…
