Life is full of ordinary miracles. Sometimes we recognize them and sometimes we don\u2019t even realize they have happened until much later. Back in July of 2011 my family was headed down to Lake Powell when we experienced some pretty cool ordinary miracles happened to us. I shared the experience in a blog I wrote to my employees when I returned from that trip but those blogs were never posted on my public website and it is too amazing of an experience not to share with all of you, so here is that story I shared:<\/p>\n
Prior to leaving our house after church last Sunday for our trip we had our usual family prayer to ask that we have a safe drive down.\u00a0 As we were driving down to Lake Powell we pulled into a gas station in Beaver, Utah to fill up our gas tank.\u00a0 As we finished filling up with gas and we were pulling out of the gas station when my husband noticed a very pregnant woman standing on the side of the road in a yellow dress next to really old, beat up station wagon holding a cardboard sign with the words \u201cNeed money for gas\u201d scribbled on the sign.\u00a0 My husband was driving and he immediately pulled over in front of her and I rolled down my window and handed her some money for gas.\u00a0 She was incredibly grateful and thanked us and we rolled up our window and drove off, not thinking anything else of it.\u00a0 We got back onto 1-15 and we continued to drive toward Lake Powell.\u00a0 About ten minutes later we heard a big boom and realized that our tire on our boat trailer had blown out.\u00a0 My husband pulled over the side of the freeway and he and my son jumped out of the car to go change the tire.\u00a0 I could tell they were having an issue because they seemed to be concerned about things.\u00a0\u00a0 It turned out that the jack was not able to lift the weight of our boat and when they were trying to lift the trailer it was bending the jack so they were unable to change the tire.\u00a0 As they struggled to figure it out we suddenly saw an old beat up station wagon drive past us and then quickly pull off the road in front of us.\u00a0 Sure enough, it was that very pregnant woman that we had just helped back in Beaver with gas money pulling off the road to offer us help.\u00a0\u00a0 She brought the jack from her car and with the two jacks side by side we were able to lift our boat and change our tire.\u00a0 She was so excited to be able to do something for us after we had done something for her, and we were so grateful to her for helping us!\u00a0 We got back into our car and we just sat incredulous that this experience had just happened.\u00a0 What a blessing!\u00a0\u00a0 But get this, the story didn\u2019t end there\u2026as we continued driving we were looking for any tire store that would be open so we could replace the spare tire, given that if another one blew out we would be in real trouble.\u00a0 But the problem was that it was a Sunday afternoon so of course everything was closed in the small towns we were driving through.\u00a0 Finally we came to a small town with a subway and we had to stop to grab food for the kids.\u00a0 Right next store was a tire store.\u00a0 My husband sent us to grab food while he wanted to check the tire shop to see if it was open.\u00a0 When he got there the sign said closed and the door was locked.\u00a0 As he turned to walk away, a man pulled into the parking lot and asked if he needed some help.\u00a0 My husband let him know that we needed a tire but the shop was closed.\u00a0 The man said that he actually worked at the tire shop and yes, it was closed today, but he had a motorcycle he had been storing at the shop for the last two years and for whatever reason he had decided to drive over to the shop to pick it up today, so since he was here anyway he would go ahead and fix our tire.\u00a0 WOW!\u00a0 When the man heard the story of what had happened he was amazed as well – it was one little miracle after another! What a great experience for us and for our kids.\u00a0 Such a reminder that ordinary miracles happen around us every day if we just take the time to watch for them, like the way my husband noticed the woman needing help, and by us answering her prayer for help, she later answered our prayer for help, as did the man at the tire shop.\u00a0 Pretty incredible!<\/p>\n
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Watch out for the ordinary miracles that can happen in your life each day. Whenever I start my day with a prayer I find it helps make me much more aware of the opportunities to serve as they come up and it helps make me more aware of those ordinary miracles as they happen. You never know when angels will be there to help you and you never know when you will turn out to be someone else’s angel!<\/p>\n
Have an amazing day full of ordinary miracles \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n
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