Healing His Heart

{Sorry about the poor quality of this pic}

These are my boys. One lives with me, the other with our Father in Heaven. He is our angel. He is around sometimes he whispers "I love you", chasing away bad dreams, laughing at our tickle wars, crying with us as we miss him so desperately, comforts us and cheers us on.

This last week has been a hard one for Jake. He is almost 10. He misses Dawson. He is trying so hard to find purpose in his leaving and comfort when it seems impossible. He was struggling quite a bit.

Did you notice "was".

This weekend is General Conference weekend. On Saturday and Sunday LDS people from all over the world will gather in their homes, churches, anywhere, to listen to be taught by Prophets, Apostles and other leaders in our church. It is powerful and spiritual.

Yesterday was different. It was more than just that. When we turned on the TV it felt as though a window opened in our home. The breeze through that window was the consuming love from our Father in Heaven. The men and women that would speak would bring to us that message through their prepared words. The spirit would then speak to our hearts. A greater desire to do good and be better was felt individually and as a family.

I noticed that Jake seemed particularly attentive. He asked me to pause (thank you DVR) the TV while he ran to his room for something.

When he came back he let me know what he was up to.

"Mom, I started a fast. I went upstairs to pray. I am fasting and praying for Heavenly Father to help me have peace about Dawson being gone and help me not feel angry at Him for taking Dawson back to Heaven."

I cried.

What else but the spirit of the Lord could have caused my boy, sitting next to his Easter basket full of candy mind you, find a private place to pray and ask His Father for much needed help and then put into action what HE needed to do by fasting. He pulled out his ore of faith and his ore of action (fasting) and started rowing hard (see the last post).

In a moment his simple faith began to truly heal his heart, through the power of the Atonement.

As a mother, I couldn't have loved our Savior and Father in Heaven more than I did at that moment. My heart has ached for Jake. I have prayed for his poor heart. The Lord answered.

Yes, there is much grief that will rise up in the future, but Jake has a personal testimony of the power of fasting and prayer and he KNOWS that the Lord hears and answers prayers. Pretty big for a 10 year old!

If you would like to watch conference online click HERE