While practicing with our Stake Choir, I found an opportunity to visit with my sitting companion.\u00a0 She is blind from birth and clearly fearless.\u00a0 She sings regularly with the Stake Choir, but I had never sat by her before.\u00a0 As we visited, she told me about a certain miracle she had experienced.<\/p>\n
As I reflect on our short conversation, I can see why she would share such a personal experience.\u00a0 Her story was her testimony; and most likely one of many experiences that encourage that testimony.\u00a0 It occurred to me, we should all be aware of our own miracles and testimonies and share them at opportune times.\u00a0 She mentioned this story had been written up in a book and I could read all the details there.\u00a0 I went home and ordered the book immediately (I love Amazon!).\u00a0 After reading her story, I am so grateful to have not only sat by her, but opened my mouth and ears.<\/p>\n
Linda, this lovely sister I sat next to, went up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with some friends from her singles ward, to go on a river trip.\u00a0 Now, remember, I told you she was blind from birth and fearless.\u00a0 On the way home, she developed a severe headache that wouldn\u2019t go away, and she began vomiting.\u00a0 A friend, who was a nurse, knew something was seriously wrong and demanded an ambulance come up from Utah to pick her up and take her to a Utah hospital.<\/p>\n
Unbeknownst to Linda, when they pulled her out of the car and first realized what was happening, a Bishop happened to see the girls and offered to administer a blessing, which he did, blessing Linda with a full recovery and a normal life.<\/p>\n
The neurosurgeon diagnosed an aneurysm and the prognosis was not very good.\u00a0 However, for some reason, the blood vessels, which had come apart, put themselves back together again, forming a blood clot.\u00a0 With medication, the clot dissolved sufficiently that no surgery was necessary.\u00a0 It was a good two months before she was able to return to work.<\/p>\n
During those two months, one in the hospital, and one in Ogden, at her parents\u2019 home, her Salt Lake ward visiting teachers visited her once a week leaving her with tapes of the Sunday Meetings she was missing.<\/p>\n
Linda had been a devout ham radio operator, but after this she was afraid to get back on for fear of forgetting all the jargon, names, and call letters.\u00a0 Her ham radio friends encouraged her, and again, showing that fearless nature, she began communicating on the radio with her friends.\u00a0 She even had to relearn Morse Code.\u00a0 When she told me this, I could hear in her voice what a monumental feat that was for her.<\/p>\n
It was such a gift for me to hear this sweet sister\u2019s miracle life and testimony.\u00a0 What if I hadn\u2019t introduced myself?\u00a0 Because she is blind, she would never have known.\u00a0 I would have missed out terribly.\u00a0 Are any of us that excited to share our own miracles with one another?\u00a0 Do we even recognize our own miracles?\u00a0 And what do you think about her visiting teachers?<\/p>\n
It makes me pause in my thinking\u2026<\/p>\n
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(If you want to read testimonies that will bring tears to your eyes, and fill your heart, find a copy of Touched by the Spirit, compiled by Joy Robinson.\u00a0 Linda\u2019s story is just one of \u00a0those mentioned in the book.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While practicing with our Stake Choir, I found an opportunity to visit with my sitting companion.\u00a0 She is blind from birth and clearly fearless.\u00a0 She sings regularly with the Stake Choir, but I had never sat by her before.\u00a0 As we visited, she told me about a certain miracle she had experienced. As I reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,10],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-women-of-god","tag-gallery-salt-lake-city"],"yoast_head":"\n