With things slowly starting\nto re-open here in Utah again our family is anxiously awaiting the reopening of\nour beloved Lake Powell. We can\u2019t wait for the marina to get back up and operational\nagain as we are all longing to be able to take a trip on our houseboat again.\nOur Lake Powell vacations each year are our family favorites, full of fun\nmemories and cool experiences. As we sat discussing what Lake Powell plans we\nhope to make this summer my mind drifted back to one of our past trips which\ntaught me a great lesson. Here\u2019s a recap of what I wrote about the experience\non that particular trip years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPrior to leaving our\nhouse after church last Sunday we had our usual family prayer to ask that we\nhave a safe drive down. As we were driving down to Lake Powell we pulled\ninto a gas station in Beaver, Utah to fill up our gas tank. As we\nfinished filling up with gas and we were pulling out of the gas station when my\nhusband noticed a very pregnant woman standing on the side of the road in a\nyellow dress next to really old, beat up station wagon holding a cardboard sign\nwith the words \u201cNeed money for gas\u201d scribbled on the sign. My husband was\ndriving and he immediately pulled over in front of her and I rolled down my\nwindow and handed her some money for gas. She was incredibly grateful and\nthanked us and we rolled up our window and drove off, not thinking anything\nelse of it. We got back onto 1-15 and we continued to drive toward Lake\nPowell. About ten minutes later we heard a big boom and realized that our\ntire on our boat trailer had blown out. My husband pulled over the side\nof the freeway and he and my son jumped out of the car to go change the\ntire. I could tell they were having an issue because they seemed to be\nconcerned about things. It turned out that the jack was not able to\nlift the weight of our boat and when they were trying to lift the trailer it\nwas bending the jack so they were unable to change the tire. As they\nstruggled to figure it out we suddenly saw an old beat up station wagon drive past\nus and then quickly pull off the road in front of us. Sure enough, it was\nthat very pregnant woman that we had just helped back in Ephraim with gas money\npulling off the road to offer us help. She brought the jack from\nher car and with the two jacks side by side we were able to lift our boat and\nchange our tire. She was so excited to be able to do something for us\nafter we had done something for her, and we were so grateful to her for helping\nus! We got back into our car and we just sat incredulous that this\nexperience had just happened. What a blessing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But get this – the story\ndidn\u2019t end there – as we continued driving we were looking for any tire store\nthat would be open so we could replace the spare tire, given that if another\none blew out we would be in real trouble. But the problem was that it was\na Sunday afternoon so of course everything was closed in the small towns we\nwere driving through. Finally we came to a small town where we decided to\nstop to grab food for the kids. Right next store was a tire store. \nMy husband sent us to grab food while he wanted to check the tire shop to see\nif it was open. When he got there the sign said closed and the door was\nlocked. As he turned to walk away a man pulled into the parking lot and\nasked if he needed some help. My husband let him know that we needed a\ntire but the shop was closed. The man said that he actually worked at the\ntire shop and yes, it was closed today, but he had a motorcycle he had been\nstoring at the shop for the last two years and for whatever reason he had\ndecided to drive over to the shop to pick it up today, so since he was here\nanyway he would go ahead and fix our tire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
WOW! When the man\nheard the story of what had happened he was amazed as well. It was one little miracle\nafter another! What a great experience for us and for our kids. It was a\nreminder that ordinary miracles happen around us every day if we just take the\ntime to watch for them, like the way my husband was watching and noticed the\nwoman needing our help, and how by us answering her prayer for help she later\nanswered our prayer for help, as did the man at the tire shop\u2026.Pretty\nincredible!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep your eyes open for the ordinary miracles that are happening in your life every day\u2026they truly are incredible\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n