Work and Miracles!

I should share with you my tender moments of last week.  A few years back I chose the greatest New Years resolution ever that was to have faith not fear.  So I worked on having more faith and less fear for a whole year.  It proved to be a touchstone in my life.  As you know I am down in Orlando testing.  The testing for the 1st graders is going very slow.  We were suppose to be done with our school on Friday but it appeared that we would be there until after Thanksgiving.

Another problem came up and I realized we were not going to reach our numbers of 100 children in 1st and 3rd grade.  On Tuesday my mind was called up if you will to this year long experience that I had a few years ago.  This wasn't the first time this had happened.  So I knew this was what I needed and it was a prompting from above.

I turned in prayer and asked Heavenly Father to enlighten my mind as to how I could accomplish this goal.  I set to work it out...  things were laid out in order for me.  I saw what needed to be done.  The goals were lofty and I wasn't sure if the would be attainable.  But I knew Heavenly Father knew what he was doing.  So on Wed I prayed that my abilities would be extended.  That his tender mercy would seek me out.  It was granted.

As the day went on I also saw I needed to pray that the Lord's Tender Mercy would fall on those who were testing with me.  Friday came and I asked my prayer that morning that not only would my abilities would be extended but my testers abilities would be extended as well and we would be able to accomplish the goals I had set.

As I went through the day I watched once again in amazement how even the slowest testers were working fast.  By the days end we had finished 38 1st graders.  I was given more permission slips for 1st grade that took us well over 100.  I was given 6 permission slips for 3rd grade bringing us to 93.  My Friday was a day of modern miracles.  I felt so in awe that thank you just didn't seem to be enough.  What a wonderful Father we have.   The words seem to lack adequacy to fully express what happened, how I felt and how tender those mercies were. 

Oh how great are the tender mercies of the Lord.  He is truly a kind and loving Heavenly Father who cares about what we care about and when we ask for his help he extends our abilities far beyond our abilities.