12.18.16

This week I had a little bit of a scary experience in having the possibilities of bad things that could of happened to me, but the tender mercies of the Lord pouring out to me so much, I had to sit for a while and contemplate what happened and say many prayers of gratitude.
This is what I posted on Facebook.

Sometimes when bad things happen we may not understand or be upset by what happens. Today I am feeling blessed and thankful!
Our back brakes went out on our black car.
Yesterday they were making a loud noise, but I had no idea what that noise was. I drove a friend up to Lakewood and nothing bad happened. (I believe a miracle! And we were being looked out for). Today Ray Shoop took it to go to work (another miracle, he usually takes the other car). And it started making really strange noises and all the lights came on! (Another miracle, it wasn't me, it would of really really freaked me out!). He was just a light away from Les Schwab. (Another miracle). They are fixing it right now. Another miracle (although this one is harder to swallow) is that we just paid off our Les Schwab card.. that's just life.. but glad we had a way to pay it and not miss out on some fun Christmas activities!
I had a friend once tell me how she felt about things happening and it has always stuck with me.. What if my brakes were going to brake down sooner.. ( on the freeway causing a huge accident) and Heavenly Father held them together for us until just the perfect moment when they could break down. After all, brakes do need fixed. I believe this. I believe that I was watched over. I believe in miracles and a loving Heavenly Father.

Another miracle I thought of that I wouldn't share on Facebook is one line of my patriarchal blessing says something like, you will be blessed as you drive on the highways. When I was sitting contemplating all the miracles of this incident and all the things that could of gone wrong, this phrase came clearly to my mind from my blessing.

I'm so glad school is out for a couple of weeks! We are looking forward to seeing our Denton family! Not looking forward to the driving.. but looking forward to being with our family!

Merry Christmas everyone!

At our ward Christmas party with the elders and Larry and his girlfriend Sue. They want to hear the lessons again for him. We're having them over after we get back from Utah!


My cute preschoolers Christmas prints for their parents.

Ray and Keagan were talking sports and looking at their phones for info. Hahahaha!

Love you all!
Sis Shoop
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