Miracles

We had a wonderful discussion tonight at Bishop Jolley's home for our youth fireside. The topic he selected was miracles and I am still thinking about many of the things that were shared. I didn't have it with me at the time, but I love this quote by Susan W. Tanner regarding miracles:

"I delight in the examples of those in the scriptures who walk by faith on their earthly journey. Each time I walk with Abraham and Isaac on the road to Mount Moriah, I weep, knowing that Abraham does not know that there will be an angel and a ram in the thicket at the end of that journey. We are each in the middle of our earthly path, and we don't know the rest of our own stories. But we, as Abraham, are blessed with miracles."

"I delight in the Lord's mercies and miracles (see "Bless Our Fast, We Pray," Hymns, no. 138). I know that His tender mercies and His miracles, large and small, are real. They come in His way and on His timetable. Sometimes it is not until we have reached our extremity. Jesus's disciples on the Sea of Galilee had to toil in rowing against a contrary wind all through the night before Jesus finally came to their aid. He did not come until the 'fourth watch,' meaning near dawn. Yet He did come. (See Mark 6:45-51.) My testimony is that miracles do come, though sometimes not until the fourth watch" (My Soul Delighteth in the Things of the Lord, Ensign, May 2008, 82-83).

(Click here to read the scripture story that Sister Tanner refers to regarding Abraham and Isaac on the road to Mount Moriah.)

I, like Sister Susan W. Tanner, also have a testimony that miracles do come. I am grateful that miracles still happen today. Some of those miracles come in the form of tender mercies, as described by Elder David A. Bednar. For these tender mercies I am also grateful.