I wanted to write down an experience I had recently. It was a miracle to me.

I had taken the children to visit my mother in Nevada last week. I wound up staying a few more days than I had planned, and I needed to wash some clothes for the children and me. Well, as it turned out there was a piece of gum left in the pocket of one of the pairs of pants I was washing. As I was pulling the laundry out of the dryer I noticed that the entire drum of the dryer was streaked with gum. My heart sank as I was absolutely sure the clothes has been ruined. I quickly started to fold the clothes, scanning them closely to see what the damage would be. As it turned out, not one article of clothing had gum on it. As you can imagine, trying to keep six children outfitted is expensive! What a relief that was! Even the pair of jeans that had the gum in the pocket came out unscathed. I was amazed! God knew we did not have the means to replace all that the dryer contained. Thus this was a miracle to me.

Later that evening as I was cleaning the dryer drum to get the gum off, I noticed that under one of the paddles was the majority of the gum. I shed tears of gratitude.

Motherhood is made up of these small miracles. I hope I appreciate them as they come.

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