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Tender Mercies

Today the Lord was aware of me.  I taught a lesson to the youth about His tender mercies, and about noticing His hand in our lives every day.  I read a quote from Elder Bednar's talk "The Tender Mercies of the Lord" where he says these tender mercies do not happen randomly or by coincidence.  I had purchased some small notebooks to hand out at the end of class, for them to use daily to write down how The Lord touches them.  The idea was to get them thinking and reflecting about how the Lord is aware of them and blessing them each day with His tender mercies, and that it is not by coincidence that certain things happen.  When purchasing the notebooks, I couldn't remember how many kids were in my class.  With it being a new year, I've only taught them once and am still getting to know who they are.  My best guess was about 8, but I bought 12 just to make sure I would have enough.  Today several new faces walked through my class door.  I wondered if I would have enough notebooks for them all.  Towards the end of my lesson, I got ready to hand them out so I quickly counted heads.  8, 9, 10, 11...12.  There were 12, exactly the number of notebooks I had purchased.  Enough for every one of them to benefit from the blessings of this activity.  Elder Bednar's quote came to my mind, "I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence." 

I came to class prepared to teach about the Lord's tender mercies and recounted a story from my past where He was aware of me.  I didn't know He would provide me with another one today.  He showed me that He was with me, helping me prepare to teach His precious children.  He also showed them that He loves them, and didn't want any one of them to miss out on the blessings that this daily exercise might bring to them.  I know my Heavenly Father loves me, and I know He loves all of them.

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