Christmas
Eve I was at my daughter’s house with many members of my family. They started
talking about a couple with two children. They were my son-in-law’s relatives.
They had just been to visit them and were happy to see how that couple were
relating to each other. “They were smiling at each other, holding hands and
whispering in each other’s ears,” they said. I asked how the children were
doing and they said they seemed happy.
For me, this
was a miracle, because I had begun praying for them a few weeks before
Christmas. I knew the children were troubled and I was worried about them. I
asked God to be in their home and to help them. I saw this transformation as an
evidence of God’s work. He always makes life better if people are open to him.
Last year, I
started praying for two people who hosted the podcast, “Pivot.” The woman on
the podcast said she didn’t understand it, but she had started having feelings
about going to church. I was elated and thanked God for sending the Holy Spirit
to encourage her to do this.
God has
worked in many miraculous ways in my life and my family’s lives, but it is
lovely when you see him work in people’s lives whom you don’t even know and
live thousands of miles away.
Prayer is
powerful because God is powerful. He is the King of the Universe yet left
heaven and became a human baby in order to save us. He wants us in his family.
He loves family, he created it.
