The Power of Porter

I feel like we have probably had our share of goodness from above. We have felt so watched over and loved. But, the tender mercies of the Lord do not stop. They are  everywhere.  They’re not even little ones that I have to really look for. They are right there, as plain as day, in front of our faces. They are beautiful witnesses of the Lord's love for Porter and our family as we navigate this new life.  What is a tender mercy? Elder David Bednar says: "The Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ. When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience...

I had a birthday. Sunday, June 27th. I am 50. In April, I bought a ticket and planned a week long trip to go see my friends in Virginia to celebrate my birthday. We had a whole list of what we were going to do and when. What we were going to eat. Where we would visit and movies we would watch. It was going to be epic. And it was exactly what I wanted to do. Then Porter's accident happened. The trip crossed my mind now and again, but I couldn't get myself to cancel the ticket. I also couldn't inform my friends I wasn't coming. Not because I thought it would disappoint them (as if they didn't already know I wasn't going to come), but I just couldn't let go of it. Like I didn't want to believe I wasn't going to be able to go. Paul encouraged me to still go. He suggested my friends come here. But, I think I was just sad and didn't want to face it. When I finally got online to cancel it, I realized it was a non-refundable, non-transferable ticket. Of ...