Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Evidences of God's Love

I have had a couple of things happen the past couple days that have reminded me how much our Heavenly Father loves me and my family, and that he really is there for us. Yesterday I went out to my car and had an errand that I had to get done. Lately a lot of things have been going wrong with my car and we have already racked up almost a $500 bill for all the things we have had to fix. We are really tight on money right now (in the final stretch of grad school, only 10 more months, YEY) so the extra charges have been really tough for us. Anyway, I went out to the car, had gotten the kids in the car and turned the car on. Well, my electrical sytem has already been having problems and when I turned on the car my seat and radio would not work. Chuck had driven the car last so the seat was moved all the way back and I could not touch the pedals at all, he is way taller than me. Anyway, our seat is on an electrical slider. First I called Chuck to yell at him, cause we all know that when we are pregnant and something goes wrong, it is obviosly the husbands fault=). I restarted the car like 10 times hoping it would switch on, but it would not work. I could not have driven the car with the seat that far back. Anyway, I came inside to take a breath and just started bawling, I really could not take one more thing going wrong (I know, I'm prego and emotional). I got on my knees and just cried to my Heavenly Father. I told him that we could not afford to fix one more thing, and if he would just fix this one thing for me I would be so grateful. I finished crying and went outside, I started my car and my seat worked right away. I started crying again and said a prayer of gratitude. I know it sounds so dumb, but I was at the end of my rope. It was another witness to me of my Heavenly Father's love. That he cares about all aspects of our lives and will always be there for us if we just ask. I am so grateful that he cares even about my car seat, even though in the eternal scheme of things it really doesn't matter at all. Anyway, it may seem small and insognifigant, but it was a big thing to me. I keep having experiances where I can see his love for me and my children, and I am so grateful for his love and tender mercies in our lives.

2 comments:

Jess said...

We just had a lesson for mutual about writing down these kinds of experiences... it isn't silly at all. The speaker that we had said that EVERY experience we have in life have to do with the Gospel and the Savior so we should record them all. They might help us or someone else in the future and you want to be able to remember them when you need them!

Heather O'Brien said...

Amber, your kids are adorable (I was catching up with the blogging). I hope you're feeling okay. P.S. I like your playlist. We have alot of similar song, but I'm going to steal some from you! LYLAS!! ha ha.