Sometimes promptings just don't make sense...until they do!

When I’m scheduled to speak in the morning, I’m terrified I’m going to sleep through my alarms. I usually dream about oversleeping all night long and as a result I don’t sleep well. Thursday night as I was going to set my alarms (I usually set 3), I had an overwhelming prompting “set a different alarm”. So I reached over and set the alarm on my nightstand clock, which I haven’t done in years.

I woke up Friday morning to the alarm on my nightstand, and my phone dead. The cord must have died or shorted or something because my phone didn’t charge one lick all night long. If I had not heeded that prompting, I would have woken up to my husband’s alarm at 7:30 AM, which was the time I was supposed to arrive at the event (I was speaking at 8:15 AM, 45 minutes from my home).

I’ve thought a lot about this the last few days. There are times I hear “the voice” and I discredit it saying, “this Is how I’ve always set my alarms, I’m going to be fine”. And then I would have missed this event all together.

A few weeks ago I was at an NSA chapter event. All of the sudden I had the distinct impression to leave, with an hour left in the meeting. It made no sense. My mom had the kids, I was wide awake, I was supposed to be in this meeting and should have done some networking after, not to mention I wouldn’t get to thank and reconnect with the speaker that we flew in-who knows when I’ll see him again. I talked myself into staying and AGAIN felt, “Go NOW”. Unexplainable, but I left. Drove home without incident, kids were fine when I arrived, my mom was fine. There was no visible reason why I should have left. Yet I had the most amazing sense of peace that I did what I was supposed to do and that was what was needed. Maybe I would have fallen asleep at the wheel later (I arrived home from Germany the night before). Maybe my mom would have fallen asleep at the wheel if I had arrived home two hours later. Maybe I would have said something I regretted if I had stayed. 😂

Here’s what I know for sure: Whether you call it a prompting from God, as I do, or you call it intuition and common sense, if we don’t ACT on these impressions we lose them. Maybe what happened two weeks ago was not saving me from a catastrophic accident but maybe it needed to happen so that I would heed the prompting on my alarm. Or to remind me that “Whatever God requires is right, even if we don’t know the reason thereof until long after the events transpire.” (Joseph Smith) Sometimes I pray for promptings but I’ve realized I also have to pray for the courage to act upon them.

Maybe they’re not connected at all but they are two lessons for me to listen and allow the miracle to unfold.