The Lord answers prayers...

Today I had a neat experience with prayer... Recently I purchased some items over a few hundred dollars (work related) and had to save to the receipts to be reimbursed. This morning I had a bazillion errands to run and left the recipts on the seat of the car so I wouldn't lose them or forget to fax them to the office. The last errand before I was supposed to fax the receipts was a doctor's appt. Brooklyn and I went in, had the apt, then came back out and drove to Matt's work to fax the receipts. I arrive there and find a parking space and look over in the passenger seat and could not find the receipts anywhere! I looked over and under, on the sides, in my pockets, in my purse, in the back seat, in Brooklyn's car seat and I mean I looked EVERYWHERE!!! I was thinking where in the heck did they go?! I had seen them on the seat all morning while runnig errands and by the time I need to fax them they are totally gone and I mean gone gone! I was frustrated because we needed to be reimbursed to get our money back for some bills that were due soon. I got out of the car and looked in the trunk, no luck. I was really boggled as to where they had gone... So I sat back in the car and said a silent prayer... Brooklyn was watching and it was so cute... she had this sincere look on her face.... After I said a pleadful prayer I decided I needed to go back to the doctor's office and look in the parking lot there. It had been a somewhat breezy morning and if the receipts did fall out there how would I ever find them since the wind probaby blew them away. I didn't even know if thats where they would be. I arrived to doctor's office and stepped out the car where I had parked. I looked around the parking lot near my car and then straight ahead against the curb on the other side of the parking lot was this white piece of paper and ran to it, it was one of the two receipts! I couldn't believe it! The wind was holding it against the curb so it couldnt fly further away... I was flabbergasted.... I couldnt believe I had found one of them. So I kept looking for the second one and looked everywhere and could not find it. One of the doctor's nurses, whom I had met with about 30 mins prior for my doctor appt. came out and asked what was wrong. I explained and she went right on looking all over with me. Another older man helped as well. We were searching all over and the sweet nurse found the second receipt in an area I didnt think the receipt would have blown too! It was around the corner and little ways down the street and she found it! I was so happy and gave her a big hug and she was so sweet about it. I shook the man's hand and thanked him so much as well. I felt so happy! I felt so happy and so blessed.... For something that seemed so small and yet so big to me the Lord knew this was importand to me and I am so grateful to my parents for instilling me the power of prayer... The first prayer I can remember was when I was about 5 or 6 and I had lost my hearing aid. My mother and I knelt down near my bed and we said a prayer that we would find it. My mother showed great faith and we found them in the neighbor's rock garden across the street. From that experiene I have been able to experience several powerful moments of prayer. Before leaving to go fax the receipts... I sat in my car and cried and prayed to my Heavenly Father and thanked him for His help. I prayed that both the man and the nurse that helped me would get their prayers answered as well in times of need.

I am so grateful for these last days.... the heavens are still open and God speaks to us still...through the power prayer...