Miracles.
Our 1 year old Audrey was drowning in an adjacent pool. 30 people present.
Nobody knew.
But, a Higher Power knew.
On one occasion our family was at my parents Fair Oaks home for a large family gathering with all my siblings and their families. There were probably 30 people present and we were in the back yard, at various tables, socializing. The big yard had grass, trees, places to play, a pool, volleyball, a barbecue, etc.
As I was in the middle of a very fun and engaging conversation with five or six of us at one table, I suddenly changed moods and blurted out “WHERE’S AUDREY??!!” And I was looking straight ahead at the table, not really looking at people, intense, without even thinking or to wait for an answer, I found myself jumping up out of my chair. I turned 180 degrees and started walking towards the pool. I was not seeing anything, and then as I got to the edge of the pool, I looked straight down in the shallow end and saw her under water looking up.
She was at the edge of the pool under water holding her breath, arms flailing, only one years old. She was looking up, her back facing down towards the bottom of the pool... and she was looking up at me, holding her breath, waving arms, and not panicking, yet. I immediately jumped in fully clothed to grasp her out of the pool. She was safe!
The timing of prompting, the movement, the correct direction, the finding all in a matter of seconds, is too extreme to brush it off as a coincidence.
What caused me to suddenly and intensely blurt out “WHERE’S AUDREY?!?” We had been having fun for hours, and now this sudden outburst? At that very moment, a little child was drowning, and nobody knew it. But suddently I knew something was very wrong and I bolted not randomly, but DIRECTLY exactly towards where she was hidden from our view, under the water.
I know from my intense memory of this strange event, that I was CAUSED or led to do that, in a way that cannot be easily explained, or even believed by a naysayer. My belief and faith in the truth that God does guide and influence events in our life grew by leaps and bounds that day. I already knew that the Lord answers prayers, but I didn’t know that He could literally almost control me to act in ways that I did not know beforehand what I would be doing… and to have to all unfold in seconds, was nothing short of an amazing spiritual experience. A miracle.
As I held my pool soaked Audrey close to me, I thought, what if I had NOT listened to the Spirit communicate to me? What if I had downplayed it? What if.
So are promptings from the Lord through the Spirit real? I testify that they are. The choice to listen to these is ours, if we have ears to hear it.
Recently the Prophet Russell Nelson has been saying and teaching:
“How do You HEAR HIM?”
Matthew 10
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Surely if the Lord notices when sparrows fall on the ground, He is also and even more aware when one of us are in danger or need help. That is the miracle, that God truly does watch over us ALL, for as Jesus said, we are of more value than many sparrows.