She was an answer to my prayer

Today I had a cool experience that I thought was share-worthy. This is one of those moments that I want to write about so that I don't forget it.

We have had what has seemed like an avalanche of bad news over the last few weeks. One thing after another!!!! I am going to spare you the details because quite honestly it is not anything worse than what many of you are experiencing right now. (Maybe I will blog about it in a few days when we know more.)
Needless to say, I have had occasional moments of overwhelming anxiety and discouragement. This morning was one. I got up to get ready for church and could barely bring myself to get out of bed! I am sure some of you can relate. To make matters worse, Brent had been up the entire night with his headache. (For those of you new to my blog, my husband has a chronic condition and has had the same headache now for 2.5 years. Some days are better than others and last night was really hard for him because he was out of one of his medecines.) Anyway, it didn't help that he wasn't feeling well because I worry about him, obviously.

I pushed through my downer mood and proceeded to get everyone ready for church (daylight savings didn't help matters much, btw). As we were driving to church I said a little prayer asking Heavenly Father to PLEASE help me fill my cup a little to get me through this next week. Remembering that it was fast and testimony meeting, I asked him to penetrate someone's heart so that they might say something that would be hope-ful and helpful to me.

Low and behold but who was the one to do it but my own 14 year old daughter! Jensen does not know everything that we are going through right now. However, she got up and bore her testimony and talked about how she had gone to her room last night and opened her scriptures, looking for something to read - like she does every night. She came across the story of Job. She wasn't familiar with it. She re-told the story briefly in her testimony and talked about how she hoped she could remember Job's faith and testimony because she knew that life was hard sometimes but Heavenly Father loves us and will see us through.

I just cried because I knew her message was for me. It was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. SHE didn't know it but I did. I told her how much her words had helped me on the way home.

I asked her what it felt like to be an answer to someone's prayer and she smiled.

I am so grateful we have been teaching our children the gospel. Today I was the beneficiary of it.