Blessing In Disguise

by Kay Heitsch

If you would have told me losing well over 1000 pictures on my phone would be a blessing in disguise, I would have laughed.

When I noticed I had deleted over 1000 pictures instead of the ones I thought I had, I felt half sick. I told myself to stay calm, but I was actually shaking.

Right at that time, my friend Evy sent me a text. I was happy to hear from her. I told Evy I had just lost over 1000 pictures on my phone, and I had been frantically trying to find a recovery button but to no avail.

Evy asked what kind of phone I had. In a matter of minutes, she found a site that explained what I should do to recover the pictures. I was very thankful!

This past weekend I have slowly been recovering from my lost pictures. Instead of just putting them back on the phone, I've been organizing them. I've put some in existing albums, and I have even created new albums.

I would have never thought at the time losing these pictures would be a blessing in disguise, but it has been. Organizing these pictures was long overdue.

Mother's Day Surprise

by Kay Heitsch

It was the day before Mother's Day 2013. I was sitting in my usual spot, spending alone time with the Lord. I looked up and noticed the little Mother's Day statue Todd had given me many years before. I had it on a shelf, along with other memories of days gone by. It was hard to believe it had been 25 years ago that Todd had died in a car accident.

As I sat in my chair, lost in my memories, I thought, "It would sure be nice to receive something again from Todd on Mother's Day, Lord." I knew it was far-fetched to desire something like this, but I wasn't going to tell anyone, and I even thought, "This is between You and me, Lord."

I got up and went about my daily activities. I was out mowing when the thought came to me again. I smiled, wondering if I might be surprised.

Later that night, my husband, Bill, came in from being gone for a few days. He walked in with a rose. He handed it to me and said it was from Todd! I was overwhelmed! Never in the past 25 years had anyone given me anything and said it was from Todd. I knew the Lord had heard and answered the "desires and secret petitions of my heart."

Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Psalm 37:4

Exactly

by Kay Heitsch

Last year we were in Israel at this time. We were going to the Western Wall, and our tour guide suggested that we text our Jewish friends and ask if they wanted us to put a prayer in the wall for them.

We happen to have several Jewish friends, so we got busy texting each for their prayer requests and writing them out.

One particular request was extraordinary. This prayer was asking for a precious baby. I wrote it out and placed it on the wall.

A few months later, we were thrilled to hear that our friends were expecting a baby. However, as exciting as that was, our biggest blessing was to find out this precious baby was born exactly one year later, on the exact day I wrote out the prayer request.