A broken doorknob and prayer

We left home to run a few errands before finishing our Saturday chores.

I locked up the house good and tight and away we went.

When we came home, to our surprise, the back door, the one coming in from the garage, would not open.

We wiggled the handle. Locked and unlocked the knob. When that didn't work, my husband tried all the doors...the ones that I bolted well.

We were locked out.

My McGyver husband got out a wrench and tried prying off the handle. I had children pleading for a bathroom and hovering over the fix-it man.

I remembered and quoted Sis. Beck's counsel she had learned from her father.

"If we're going to laugh about it in 20 years, we may as well laught at it right now."

It seemed to alleviate the tension and worry and put a few smiles on faces.

After a good fifteen minutes of prying and twisting, our six year old shouted out, "Why don't we have a prayer?"

So, we all piled in the van and dad prayed while we all exerted faith.

I hopped out of the van and wiggled the handle again. Still no movement on the lock. By this time, we determined the lock was broken. As I wiggled the handle again, I remembered movies where someone would use a credit card to unlock a door.

I tried a plastic card in the door...wiggled...and whah la! It opened.

As soon as the door swung open, it was as if light had jumped into each of us. All the children shouted to say how Heavenly Father answered our prayers.

We all went inside the house, happier than we ever had before going in. Happy children. Happy parents. Our eight year old, gleaming now, so happy to be INSIDE the house, asked if we had remembered to thank Heavenly Father for all the other MIRACLES he had given us.

Listing them off, they named all the times since coming here that Heavenly Father had delivered us from sickness, car troubles, back troubles, etc. They named off one experience after another. Each of them with something different.

Husband and I looked at each other. We could SEE the Lord's hand today. The children could SEE His hand and miracles today and all the yesterday's. We thanked Heavenly Father as a family.

Faith has been strengthened yet again.

"In the strength of the Lord, we can do hard things." Sis. Elaine Dalton