The Lord is in the Details

I feel so grateful for the multitude of blessings that we all share. We are called to go through challenges, and of course these obstacles provide an opportunity for us to glean strength and demonstrate our commitment. But perhaps one of the reasons we are faced with obstacles is so we can witness the handiwork of God as he exhibits his might. I recently attended a 30-year reunion of the WordPerfect family. There, Kurt Bestor performed a renown and loved song for us, which I had heard decades earlier when I was working at WordPerfect.

There are dozens of renditions of this moving song--THE PRAYER OF THE CHILDREN, which he produced back in those days. Bestor served his mission in Serbia during the 1970s. He lived with many different races and religions of people in this war torn country: Serbians, Muslims, and Croatians. At one point, he was working in a hospital caring for the children who had been devastated by this war that was not of their choosing. While he retrieved supplies from a neighboring town, this hospital was bombed. Bestor came back to find it destroyed and all the innocent children he had come to care for dead. When he returned to the US, he was inspired to write a song in tribute to the children, the innocent, who were the ones suffering the most from this war. Near the end of the song, for a brief moment--in memory of these children--the words change from English to Serbian. 

President Monson's conference talk addressed the subject of recognizing the Lord's hand in our day and taking time to consider the blessings of our lives. 

Yes. Especially amid hardship, gratefully, the Lord is in the details.

The Prayer of the Children 

Sage of Lamberne