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This article was so inspiring!  Also, she wrote a previous article which is referenced in the footnotes.  I always read footnotes!  They have often made such an impression on me -- as well as the article they follow!    Seek and Expect Miracles  By  Anne Hinton Pratt  · May 4, 2022 I’m a believer in miracles, and love to hear about the widely varied miracles that we as God’s children are privileged to experience.  My faith is strengthened by President Nelson’s directive to “Seek and Expect Miracles. [i]   God said,  “I am a God of miracles,” [ii]  and he means it.  Read these miraculous accounts… Miracle of Comfort during Horrific time Jeanne Guinn recounts a never to be forgotten experience,    “When I was 21 yrs. old my husband was shot and killed in front of me . As he lay dying I distinctly felt arms around me, comforting me. I don’t know if it was my dying husband’s spirit or an angel but 50 years later...

                 We need some good news -- and here it is! 22 April 2020   -   Scarborough, Ontario   News Story Centenarian Church Member  Survives COVID-19  Justiniano Anibal Ulloa, a 101-year-old member of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Saints   living in Scarborough, Ontario, was born during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918  and has recently survived the deadly novel coronavirus. ( See an additional report of this  story by CTV News Toronto .) With failing lungs and a serious cough, Justiniano was taken to hospital on April 4 and  tested positive for COVID-19. The doctors expected he would not survive and said no one  would be able to visit him in hospital. His family received permission to take him home  and care for him there, which allowed him to receive calls from his immediate and  extended f...

Do you ever feel that the Lord hasn't heard your prayers, or isn't answering them in the way you want?  This beautiful article helps us understand a lot! While We Search the Skies for Angels By  Ted Gibbons  · September 3, 2019 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Editor’s Note: Beloved author Ted Gibbons recently passed away after a battle with cancer. We will continue to share his wonderful insights here periodically. Embedded in many of Paul’s letters are messages left, as it were, in tiny crystal containers, almost hidden in the shadows of the eternal doctrines that fill Paul’s epistles. For example, in Philippians 4, Paul encourages the saints to “stand fast in the Lord” and to be “in the same mind of the Lord,” and to “rejoice in the Lord” (Phil 4:1,4). But in the midst of this counsel to be Christ-like. Paul teaches a lesson we might miss if we are not watching. He suggests an approach to life that will ...

This is a touching story about the distraught teen age son of a woman who died of cancer, and how he was comforted. TOPICS POPULAR MORMON REPORT LESSON HELPS How Meeting 8 Apostles and the Prophet in One Day Answered a Young Man's Desperate Questions by M. Russell Ballard, adapted from "When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness"  | Aug. 11, 2018 Makes You Think Mormon Life Comments Some years ago there was a rather serious tragedy in our ward. A great woman, the wife of our former bishop and a woman beloved and respected in our ward family, contracted cancer of the worst kind. This was a vivacious, effervescent woman who lifted and inspired everyone she met. As the disease became worse, I gave her blessings. Other General Authorities gave her blessings. One of the blessings I gave was in the presence of her seventeen-year-old son. Another blessing was given to her when her son was e...