3 Relatively Modern Examples of Food and Water Miraculously Appearing
The first happened on the Pioneer trek west. It was a tough
road – more so if you were already sick when you loaded into the wagon. So it
was for Mary Ann Mellor. She’d given birth to conjoined twins the day her ship was
to leave Liverpool, England. The twins died and the doctor’s thought Mary Ann
would too. A few days later she boarded the ship on a stretcher.
The super sick boat trip
may have been the easier part of her journey:
“As part of the Martin handcart company, they faced many
difficulties on the trail. Mary Ann had regained some of her strength, but was
still weak enough she nearly gave up on many occasions. On one occasion, she
did. She told her family she would go no further, kissed her children goodbye,
and “sat down on a boulder and wept.” Again, Louisa chose to come to her
mother’s aid. She told the family to go on without her, prayed that she and her
mother would be able to catch up with the company without harm, and got off her
knees and went to work. As she returned to her mother’s boulder, she found a
pie in the road, which she gave to her mother to eat. They rested for a time,
and then succeeded in rejoining the group. Louisa recounts that “many times
after that, Mother felt like giving up and quitting, but then she would
remember how wonderful the Lord had been to spare her so many times, and offered
a prayer of gratitude instead.”” (http://ldswomenshistory.blogspot.com/2010/03/mary-ann-mellor-and-louisa-mellor-clark.html)
I’ve left a lot of pie scraps in roads when I’ve had to walk
somewhere while I’m whole-pie hungry. Especially on those walks where I forgot
my fork. Hundreds of pounds of pie crust and filling just strewn across dozens
of sidewalks and intersections over the years. Several street sweepers have
implored me to stop.
This sort of miracle happened again more recently too – to
Elizabeth Smart. She was a young girl taken from her room against her will and
forced to live in a tent with her captors for many months. This is part of her
story:
“After going several days without water, she awoke in the
middle of the night for no reason. Both captors were asleep and when she looked
around she found a yellow cup filled to the brim with clean, cold water. There
was no way her captors would have shared if they had found water, the nearest
source of water was a grueling hike down and then back up, and by the time they
got it back was never super cold and tasted like the plastic jugs used to haul
it up. "Where did the water come from? I have no explanation other than
the water came from God. I know we didn't have a drop of water in the
camp.....Why did God do it? How did it happen? What was God trying to say?
Would I have died without the water? Certainly not. As thirsty as I felt, and
as terrible as it was, I was not teetering on the edge of a lifeordeath
situation. And I was not alone. Mitchell and Barzee needed water too. Mitchell
wasn't going to stay up on the mountain and let us all die of thirst.
Eventually he would have had to go down to the stream. So why did God send me
the water? Because He loved me. And He wanted me to know. He wanted me to know
that He was still near. He wanted me to know that He controlled the Earth and
all the heavens, that all things were in His hands. And if He could move
mountains, then he could do this thing for me. To Him it was a small thinga
terribly easy thing to dobut for me it was as powerful as if He had parted the
sea. This experience reminded me once again that God had not deserted me. He
was aware of my suffering and loneliness. And that assurance gave me hope. It
helped me to keep my faith and gave me the strength that I needed to go
on."” (http://whatimreadingmdw.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-story-elizabeth-smart-with-chris.html)
In
the first case you have a pie showing up with no available explanation. Here
you have a yellow cup brim-full of cold water appearing near Elizabeth in a
soul-crushing time. So far these two things made me wonder; “If it is a heaven
sent pie, who made it? Was it a heavenly baker? Did it disappear from a window
sill somewhere nearby and then appear in the road. And the water – was it
scooped from a heavenly stream? Did an angel deliver it? An earthly messenger?
I could think of this kind of thing all day.
This
third example, luckily, is a little more specific about the ‘how.’ It happened
to W.W. Phelps. And to John P. Green. And to Rhoda Green. This one encompasses
food and water. Here’s their story:
“While traveling to Far West, Brother Phelps became lost and
needed to stay the night out on the prairie. He became hungry and his horse
needed water. In the dark, he came upon a loaf of bread, wrapped in a white
linen cloth which was held together by six pins. A man then appeared to Brother
Phelps and guided him and the horse to water. The man then provided Brother
Phelps with directions that would lead him back to Far West. Once in Far West,
the prophet Joseph Smith asked Brother Phelps if anything peculiar happened to
him on his way. After Brother Phelps related his experience to Joseph and John
P. Green, Brother Green explained that an old man had approached his home the
day before and told Sister Green that he had a friend who could use a loaf of
bread. Brother and Sister Green gladly wrapped the loaf of bread and gave it to
the man. Brother Phelps returned the white linen cloth and six pins to Brother
Green. Joseph then smiled and said, “And you didn’t know that that was
Moroni!”” (http://www.livingheritagetours.com/moroni-appeared-to-17-different-people)
You ever lost anything? You ever lost something that not even a seer stone can find? You
put it somewhere and you know exactly
where but somehow you never find it again. Would you be less mad if you knew it
went to a good cause?
Maybe a good cause is exactly where it went.
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