Dance Shoes

One dance class.  One test worth 24% of my grade.  No dance shoes.  A prayer.  Normal heels being hard to dance in.  Ordering dance shoes to arrive just in time. Dance test Tuesday; shoes to arrive Monday...

Monday, checking mailbox but no dance shoes... Paper in mailbox: 'No residents at this address'.  Worry.  Looking online.  Shoes came, but forwarded.  Panic.  A phone call..  Shoes coming next Tuesday...  Test tonight.  Worry...a prayer...trust...  That night, test changed by teacher till the next Tuesday... Hooray!

Waiting for shoes.  Tuesday came...no shoes...  Leaving to visit my brother before he leaves for two years, then directly to dance class...  Still no shoes...another prayer.  Remembering: forgot paper in apartment...  Going back to car... Mail truck coming closer.  Shoes given.  Apology made.  Joy...relief...answered prayer!

Some say: coincidence...
But I know better: God is real and hears me.  I ask and trust.  His help comes.

Kimberly H.

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By the Obedience of One

I recently read a passage of scripture from the New Testament that reads, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).  Upon reading it, I reflected on the different examples in my life and their effect on my decision-making growing up.  Being the youngest in a large family enabled me to see firsthand the consequences between good and bad choices.  I realize how much more simple and wonderful my decisions were because of the righteous examples I had.  I've always wondered what I would have done had I not grown up with so many older siblings or had they made worse decisions instead of the ones they made.

I know that if we strive to make the right decisions and choices, we can personally benefit from those choices and we can show others the blessings of a righteous life by our example.  I know that as we choose to follow Jesus Christ and His Gospel, we will be following the ultimate example.  I encourage all to be the example even when the choice goes against the crowd because “by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”  By your obedience, others may follow and become obedient themselves just as I was through my life examples.

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Darren C.