At The End of the Day

Sometimes we think we've had a bad day and nothing has gone right.  It would be easy to get discouraged, except for something we realized on our first mission to Uganda--and that is if we stop at the end of the day and try to think of something good that happened and then write it down (we don't have very long memories) our eyes are opened and we begin to notice the many miracles we have experienced during the day.  We are assured that Heavenly Father is indeed is very near and helping us along.  It is so helpful when we are tempted to get discouraged.

Most of the miracles (we like to call them "tender mercies") are small and others are significant, but we do have them.

When we lost some money, we prayed for help to find it and felt impressed to look in the dryer.  It was there.

We had a very important appointment with the International CEO of United Muslim Relief from New York and I was very sick.  I prayed for the Lord to help me "quick--I only have 10 minutes."  I went into the bathroom, threw up and was all better and out the door.  It was 10 minutes exactly.

When we woke up this morning our iphone was dead.  A dead cell phone is a serious problem for us because we have "everything we know" on the phone--contacts, calendar, pictures, etc. We use it constantly.  There wasn't anything we could do to get it started, so we made an urgent plea through prayer for help.  Immediately the idea came to go look on the internet, google "what to do when your iphone goes dead."  We did it and sure enough we found the answer to our problem, and were able to get the phone up and running again.  Whew!!  Thank you.

The list goes on and on.  The miracles (as they say in Africa), are "too numerous to mention."

Our lesson learned is:  Ask the Lord--even for the small every-day things--and He will help.  Then PAY ATTENTION.  Sometimes we think He isn't listening or helping, when in fact He really is.