December 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

the ground bleeding, waiting for a friend to find his earthly
parents, his thoughts turned to another Parent, and he
prayed, “Father in Heaven, please help the pain go away
until I can get to the hospital.” When I reached my boy a
few minutes later, he was lying calmly on the lawn. The
pain had been initially taken away and did not return until
we arrived at the hospital, where he could be treated. One
“ I
f any person
needed wisdom
from God, I did;
for how to act
I did not know.”
of the lessons of that experience for me was the assurance
that it was not unique. This is a small example of what
thousands of people could attest to, that they have
received help when they turned to our Heavenly Father
in moments of extremity.
Though my young son’s experience may not be one that
I or his Father in Heaven would have chosen for him, I have
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