Two paintings regarding the story of Jesus and Peter walking on the water along with a video of a personal short story given by Patricia T. Holland. The story is of a time Elder Holland showed forth mighty faith and instead of fearing under the weight of a doubtful situation, he called upon the powers of heaven and a miracle occurred.
Against the Wind by Liz Lemon Swindle. You can purchase a print of the painting at Foundation Arts by clicking HERE.
This is her story:
A few years ago I was having some serious medical problems. I scheduled myself into a hospital for some routine presurgery testing. I’m not sure I even told Jeff I was going in for the tests. To begin, they injected an iodine dye into my vein prior to taking X-rays, and I had a severe allergic reaction. I went into anaphylactic shock. All my bodily functions stopped. Three doctors and two nurses worked frantically to revive me. At one point during this struggle I came to enough to hear one of the nurses read my pulse which was slower then my father-in-law’s had been when he went into a coma and died.
I knew I was dying, and I knew I needed someone with absolute faith. I called out for my husband and fell unconscious again.
It dawned on them that they should have called him anyway, but they simply had been preoccupied with my condition. A nurse ran to a phone to call him. All she said to him was, “We are doing all we can for your wife, and now she wants you.”
In less time than it takes to get to the hospital, he arrived and bolted into the emergency room rather than wait outside as someone had suggested. With his usual confidence (which I have silently watched develop as his relationship with the Lord has deepened), he sort of shoved three doctors and two nurses aside and announced, “I don’t know whether any of you are LDS, but I am going to give my wife a blessing.” Midway through that blessing I opened my eyes, saw his face, and thought I had never seen anything so beautiful. And I told him so. (Later he told me this was the only evidence he had found of any brain damage.)
I add my personal witness that prayer, including priesthood prayer, is the proof of our faith. And the proof is rewarded by the Holy Ghost (and holy power) which Nephi said “will show unto you all things what ye should do” (2 Nephi 32:5). There are miracles of faith, and we should have faith in the miraculous.
May these paintings and this story be a reminder to each of us to always keep our eyes focused on Christ and by so doing, we can have the kind of faith that miracles are made of.
For a wonderful quote and reminder that your lifeguard walks on water, click HERE
Yours Truly,
