Do you believe in miracles?
What if we looked for and expected them?
You’re listening to the Love Tidbits Podcast, where you’ll discover a small, tasty, delightful, bite-sided tidbit of love ~ I’m your host, LeAnn Austin
Hey y’all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #62: Miracles
I just finished reading a beautiful book by Brent C. Satterfield called Faith To Produce Miracles. There is so much insight and love woven throughout this book, and written for intentional reflection, not a read through and done kind of book. So, if you want to expand the miracles that you see, better understand your emotions, increase your self-love, and grow your faith from action to power, I highly recommend this book.
Brent shares that “a miracle is generally defined as that which occurs for which we have no rational explanation. And there is no limit to the types of miracles that can occur.”
Do you believe in miracles? I certainly do. There are countless tender mercies around us every day, when we have the faith to produce miracles.
My dad posted the following on his Facebook page last week:
We were privileged to be invited to attend Jeff and LeAnn’s 50th birthday family trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we saw a never-ending string of miracles. 10 people, three different airlines, multiple cities actually made it with significant divine help.
Miracle #1: Grandma and Grandpa and six grandkids traveled from St. George to Las Vegas, in TWO separate cars, at night, found the little airport offsite motel offsite parking 25 minutes away, got on the SAME every-30-minute shuttle, traveled to San Juan on two different airlines, with extended layovers in different cities arriving at different times.
Miracle #2: Grandma and Grandpa (second and third to arrive) dutifully followed Apple maps to the air-bnb in their rental car, ended up in a remote San Juan jungle at night. Miraculously, there was barely enough cell service to reach Jeff (the only person who had arrived), who was able to enable “Find me” and guide us to a meeting place.
Miracle #3: Later that night, in two separate cars, we were able to navigate to the San Juan airport, recover the 6 grandkids and returned to the air-bnb. LeAnn arrived even later.
Miracle #4: The two cars were able to follow each other through narrow old San Juan streets, at spring break with a huge cruise ship in port, find a sketchy parking garage, see El Morrow, return to the garage where the cars were still there, and return to the house.
Miracle #5: Jeff and LeAnn signed up their family for a waterfall hike and tour an hour and a half away. Arriving at the tour meeting place and expecting to caravan to the falls, grandparent’s rental car dies (but got three family members to the meeting place). LeAnn’s family crams into the remaining car and other tour members and leave. Roadside service completely unavailable, phone kept hanging up. After repeated attempts by an angelic construction worker who went to his house, got jumper cables, and worked on charging the battery until it finally caught. We were able to drive to the airport, change cars, return to the meeting place, and then navigate 30 kilometers in the jungle to a tiny clearing where we found the tour cars and arrived 15 minutes before the family returned from their 4 hour tour.
A little side note on this. I didn’t think there was any way they could ever find us, and I was totally surprised when we walked out of our hike and there was Grandma and Grandpa. Such a miracle.
Okay, so miracle #6: On the tour, there was climbing rock faces involved. Kristen was directed to jump to a different place and really smacked her head hard. Miraculously, the tour group’s helmet protected her from what could have been a really serious injury.
Miracle #7: Attended the brand new San Juan Temple.
Miracle #8: Returned on different airlines at different times to Las Vegas. Kurt and Kristen waited, were able to retrieve our car and were driving by the exact moment we were exiting the airport, and drive us back to St. George at 4:15 in the morning.
“Seek and expect miracles.” They happen. Every day.
I’m so grateful that my dad documented some of the miracles from our fun and adventurous week together.
Take time to notice and share the miracles in your life. It’s so beautiful to have to remember and simply to notice.
I love the suggestion from Russell M. Nelson: “Seek and expect miracles.” Hmmm, something to think about.
Have a good one y’all, and here’s to miracles and love.
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