Madhouse Miracles

 I would be remiss (especially after reading the admonition of the Savior to record sacred things as found in 3 Nephi 27) if I didn’t record the miraculous happenings of the “Madhouse” play this weekend.  So very many things go wrong…equipment failure (from sound system overlap to the darn cans of spray paint), shipping problems (the critical deer portrait not arriving in time and having to do some last minute running around), scheduling issues with families that both they and I didn’t realize until the end…but so very many things go right.  Just because we are doing the work of the Lord, doesn’t mean that the path will be easy.  No example in the scriptures would validate this.  Every situation that comes to mind is rife with doubt, complications and outright heart-breaking moments.  Hannah and her son; Daniel and the lion’s den; Nephi and his brothers; Abinadi, Moses, Abraham….the list goes on.

(from a post of my mom's)

    But this morning, as I lay in bed, unable to sleep, I started reviewing scriptures that I have memorized and one floated to the surface in a different light, illuminated by the context of my life right now: Isaiah 41,  think…it’s the last verse in 40 or 41, I think.  But anyway, it basically goes like, “and they that wait upon the Lord shall rise up on their wings as eagles.  And they shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint.”  I thought it meant to wait for the Lord, as in be patient.  But maybe it also means the serving kind of “wait.” I am anxiously engaged in some super amazingly good causes. I also am mindful of the “it is not requisite that you run faster than you are able”...which means sleep!  But we shall be able to run and not be weary…and walk and not faint, meaning those times when we need to slow down, we will not be lost.  I was grateful for this reminder and different way of looking at it. I know that my God is an awesome God and that He truly will honor all of the words that He has sent and continues to send through the mouths of His servants, from prophets to babes, through the Holy Ghost and the scriptures.

Some images from the play (courtesy of Beth Flick, owner of BFlick Photography https://www.facebook.com/bflickphotography )