A Shooting Star

The other morning while I was driving to work (5 in the morning, mind you) I saw the most amazing shooting star. I have never seen such a shooting star in my life, just lit up, fell throw the ski for a few seconds and was gone. I thought to myself, “make a wish, it’s a shooting star.” But for the life of me I couldn’t come up with something.

Do you wish for one thing or a few things, can you do that on a shooting star, wish for more than one thing? And if you could, what would it be?

Wealth
Health
Peace
A stronger testimony
To add to our Family
Energy
One more day to hold my babies
The answers to questions that have bugged you for a while, maybe even years.
To see a family member come back into the arms of the Lord and feel his Love for them again.
Even to wish a dear friend that passed away due to complications of cancer was here to watch her 4 year old Princess grow up.

So as I drove I didn’t wish, I just thought about what I “should” or “would” if wishes really came true. I guess this is where I would talk about why I named my blog ~ Some Miracles take time ~

In the scriptures we read of Christ passing by the Temple with his Disciples:

John 9: 1-7
“1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.”

This is one of my favorite stories of the Savior and his ministry; I fell in love with this story while I was on my mission. I realize that miracles happen every day, some are fast, and then there are those Miracles that take time, BUT they do happen, it just that it takes longer then WE would like or want to wait for. And so: “Miracles happen, it’s just that some ‘Miracles take time’.”

So how long did this man sit at the Temple gates and wait day after day after day for someone to change his life or for something “better” to come along? How many times in his life did he hear the words of pity from other’s or the sarcasm of those that thought themselves above him. This man did not know that his life would change one day with the passing by of the greatest Man to ever walk the earth, a Man that came to understand the suffering of his Children through taking upon him the sins of the world, and not just the sin’s, but he understands all our suffering, from mean words, to a fight with the one’s we love, to yes even the anguish of losing a child. He took upon himself the full suffering of all mankind. He understands the pain that at times we just cannot put into words.

How many of us are at the Temple gate waiting for that Miracle to happen, wanting and willing that Miracle to happen NOW, but knowing that it’s not going to be an “easy” fix as we hope for.

Serving a Mission was one of the greatest moments in my life; it helped prepared me for events that I would have no control over, it helped set the stage on many things. It wasn’t just the “Best 20 months of my life”, but the “Best 20 months” to prepare me for the REST of my life.

I didn’t get married right when I got home, in fact that was also one of those “taking its time” moments to happen. I came home, worked, went back to school, started coaching High School Girls Soccer, dated, dated some more, thought I had found “Mr. right one” (or a few of them along the way) only to find that they were “right” but right for someone else. I finally met Justin the fall of 1999; I had been home for almost 8 years… See Miracles take time. We dated, I knew he was “the One” and didn’t like knowing that and told him to get lost, yes really I did this. After a few months I knew I was very wrong in doing this, went and found him. I never told him what I knew, but told him, “Let’s start this off again, but as friends.” That was mid December of 1999; we were engaged by the end of February 2000, sealed for Time and all Eternity the first of June of that same year. How grateful I am for an Eternal Marriage, and that knowledge of what we are promised I hold to those promise even more with the path we have walked to have a family. I look back and see just how I am like that blind man sitting at the gates of the Temple, waiting for that Miracle, not knowing that it was and IS going to take time, but knowing that as the Savior himself said;

“Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”