I went to the grocery store. It is so easy for me to spend money at the grocery store. I have gotten into the habit of praying before I go to the store, that I won't buy stuff that we don't need and that I will use the money wisely that my Heavenly Father has given our family. As I prayed I asked that I would spend around $150.00. I did not have time to add things up as I went along. I had to grab what I needed and then get to preschool to pick up Maddie. I rushed through getting most of what I had planned and a few extras that I felt we needed. When I got to the register to pay the cashier said: "That will be One Fifty and Twenty One." I looked at the register in shock. Sure enough the total was $150.21. I felt so blessed. Just another miracle that God is there, He is listening and I am important to Him as are YOU!!
About fifty years ago, Mr. F. M. Bareham wrote the following:
"A century ago men were following with bated breath the march of Napoleon and waiting with feverish impatience for news of the wars. And all the while in their homes babies were being born. But who could think about babies? Everybody was thinking about battles.
"In one year between Trafalgar and Waterloo there stole into the world a host of heroes: Gladstone was born in Liverpool; Tennyson at the Somersby Rectory, and Oliver Wendell Holmes in Massachusetts. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and music was enriched by the advent of Felix Mendelssohn in Hamburg."
And we might add, and Joseph Smith was born in Vermont, four years earlier.
Quoting Bareham further:
"But nobody thought of babies, everybody was thinking of battles. Yet which of the battles of 1809 mattered more than the babies of 1809? We fancy God can manage his world only with great battalions, when all the time he is doing it with beautiful babies.
"When a wrong wants righting, or a truth wants preaching, or a continent wants discovering, God sends a baby into the world to do it." (Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle: pp, 84,85)
This quote gave me power as a mother. Who do I have in my home? What future do my children hold? How can I tap into their divine potential and help them become what our Father in Heaven has for them?
About fifty years ago, Mr. F. M. Bareham wrote the following:
"A century ago men were following with bated breath the march of Napoleon and waiting with feverish impatience for news of the wars. And all the while in their homes babies were being born. But who could think about babies? Everybody was thinking about battles.
"In one year between Trafalgar and Waterloo there stole into the world a host of heroes: Gladstone was born in Liverpool; Tennyson at the Somersby Rectory, and Oliver Wendell Holmes in Massachusetts. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and music was enriched by the advent of Felix Mendelssohn in Hamburg."
And we might add, and Joseph Smith was born in Vermont, four years earlier.
Quoting Bareham further:
"But nobody thought of babies, everybody was thinking of battles. Yet which of the battles of 1809 mattered more than the babies of 1809? We fancy God can manage his world only with great battalions, when all the time he is doing it with beautiful babies.
"When a wrong wants righting, or a truth wants preaching, or a continent wants discovering, God sends a baby into the world to do it." (Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle: pp, 84,85)
This quote gave me power as a mother. Who do I have in my home? What future do my children hold? How can I tap into their divine potential and help them become what our Father in Heaven has for them?
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