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Miracle of Miracles

    Earlier this week one evening I was having a hard and emotional evening. My boys had gone to bed and I let myself cry in my room. After a few minutes of crying, my youngest son came back into my room (he had forgotten to put some toys away and so my husband had him come pick them up). Before he went back upstairs to his room he came and checked on me. We talked for a few minutes. In our conversation, he says to me, “Mom. I love you. I love Jesus. Do you know why I love Jesus?” I responded, “I don’t. Why do you love Jesus.” “Because Mom, Jesus is a God of Miracles.” This simple conversation based on the simple faith of my son brought a lot of peace to my heart. Jesus is a God of miracles.

    I felt very overwhelmed this week. I felt the pressure to finish my website to the point where it is perfect! I couldn’t deliver. There is no way I can make my website perfect when it needs to be perfect. I feel like it needs to be perfect now. I am putting a lot of pressure on myself, but that evening it just was very overwhelming.

    Thankfully, several things helped me to feel better: my conversation with my son, learning about Google Analytics, and the meme I attached to the end of this post. I felt like Google Analytics will help relieve a lot of that self-imposed pressure. It will help me to see I don’t have to have everything perfect right now. I will be able to analyze the data and improve where improvement is needed. Jesus is a God of miracles. With His guidance, I will know what changes to make in order to improve my website. I can do this.

    My son finished our conversation by telling me about a miracle that had happened to him a few days before. He had lost his favorite sword. He prayed to find it. When he looked for it, he didn’t find his favorite sword, but he did find another one. Then later, he found his favorite sword. His miracle that our Savior helped him with was finding his favorite sword and a second one. So simple. It was a miracle for my son. The small important things that the Lord helps us with, are miracles. The fact that I’ve even created a website is a miracle. The assistance and data given by Google Analytics is a miracle. If we look, we can find all of the Lord's miracles around us.

    I like this meme because it reminds me that if I just use my efforts to keep working and improving then I’m making progress. If I just wait for me to understand everything, then I won’t move at all. I need to focus on my efforts and that will help me move forward.



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