In The Midst of a Miracle

I am going to take just a few moments (because that is all I have) to record some feelings I have been having...

I know I am surrounded by miracles every day - my two sweet kiddos are most definitely a miracle. Sometimes, however, it is hard to see the miracle when the rigors of mortality demand your constant attention.

This week, however, I have the opportunity to watch waves of miracles all around me and see them for what they are. I am in the midst of the great women's conference I get to attend each year known as Especially For Women. All around me are amazing women who came for fun, for rejuvenation for spiritual enrichment but are quickly finding out the real reasons why our loving, all knowing Father in Heaven sent them here. It is amazing to witness. I really cannot express that enough. I think it must be experience to truly understand.

I have been filled with a love for women I just met yesterday whom I know are daughters of a man who knows how to create a tree or a dolphin or, well, the universe. Yet, they are His favorite creation and He has a plan for each of them. They will feel that and rediscover that very powerfully this week.

But there is one "woman" I am developing an even greater love and admiration for this week...my 5-year-old daughter Elizabeth. As with each of us, she is going to work miracles in this world and beyond. My sense of her greatness is deepening and my desire to help her also sense her greatness is expanding. It is something we all must feel and accept...

No one can take your place. No one has your same combination of talents and abilities and the experiences you have had that guide those talents and abilities. Your Father loves you just the way you are and no matter your mortal age, you are still His little girl whom He adores and longs to hold again. He and our Savior (and others whom we cannot see) have every confidence in your ability to FLY. They see your wings and know what you can do when you fully extend them and take that leap of faith to be who, deep inside, you know you are. Don't be afraid of your greatness. Embrace it and work miracles with it.

(somebody remind me of this in about a week) :)