Miracles Happen

Author's Note: Sometimes when I say things like, "Miracles happen," I'm using hyperbole to express that something good just happened. In this case, I am not exaggerating.

As of 1:09 p.m. today, my midterm is done. This assignment was the WORST assignment I've ever had to do. For an entire week, I was paralyzed by my own ignorance. I had no idea what to write. None. Not even a little bit. Then when it got to be a week before the due date, I simply HAD to write something. I worked painstakingly each day for hours at a time, and very slowly picked away at the project. One night I stayed late at my office to work on it, and after I couldn't stand it anymore, I saved it to my thumbdrive (which I'd been doing periodically through the evening), and took it home. When I got home, I put the disk in and discovered that several changes had not been saved. I was really tired and couldn't really deal with the possibility that I'd lost all the work I'd done in the past few hours, so I just turned my computer off and got ready for bed.

If I had to give a very casual version of my prayers that night, it would sound something like, "Heavenly Father, I don't know what happened to my paper. I thought I'd saved it, but I don't think it did. I cannot handle redoing all that work. I just can't. Please let there be some way that my work wasn't lost."

The next morning, I came to work and put in my thumb disk. I know that prayers are heard and answered, but I didn't know what I'd find when I opened the file. I opened it up and found the same thing I'd found the night before. But before I could even feel a stab of panic, I thought, "Maybe I should look on the hard drive." I remembered saving my work to the hard drive early in the evening, but I knew I hadn't continued to do it as I'd written more. I didn't see why the latest version of my paper would be there, but I thought I might as well look anyway.

It was there. Everything I'd written (and even more than I'd remembered; I was so tired at that point that I'd forgotten some of the things I'd composed) was there, and I knew instantly that a miracle had occurred. There was no reason for that paper to have been saved on my computer, but there it was. I know Heavenly Father heard me and and answered my prayer.