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Ann Jewell Rowley had walked a very long way.
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She had come all the way from England with her children, walking toward a new home in Zion.
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But now it was almost night, and there was no food. Not even a crumb.
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“There came a time when there seemed to be no food at all.”
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Some of the men had gone out to look for buffalo. But night was coming, and they had not come back.
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“Some of the men left to hunt buffalo. Night was coming and there was no food for the evening meal.”
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Ann looked at her children. Eight hungry mouths, and nothing to put in the pot.
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“Surely, that was not enough to feed 8 people.”
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So Ann did what she always did. She got down on her knees and asked God for help.
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“I asked God's help as I always did. I got on my knees.”
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And while she prayed, she remembered something.
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At the very bottom of her trunk, there were two hard sea biscuits. They were small. They were so hard they could not even be broken.
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Two biscuits for eight people? Ann smiled quietly to herself.She remembered a story — five loaves of bread and two small fish, and five thousand hungry people waiting.That was not enough food either. But Jesus had done it — every single person had eaten.If He could do it then, maybe He could do it again.
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“5 loaves and 2 fishes were not enough to feed 5,000 people either, but through a miracle, Jesus had done it.”
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"With God's help," Ann said softly, "nothing is impossible."
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“with God's help, nothing is impossible.”
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She found the Dutch oven — the big, heavy iron pot. She put the biscuits inside.
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Then she poured water over them — just enough to cover those two little biscuits.
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“covered them with water.”
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Then Ann bowed her head and asked God to bless the little pot of food.
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“asked for God's blessing.”
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She put the heavy lid on. She set the pot right on the coals, and she waited.
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“I put the lid on the pan and set it on the coals.”
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The fire popped. A cold wind blew past. The children waited and watched.
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A little while later, Ann reached down and took hold of the lid.
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“When I took off the lid a little later.”
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She lifted the lid. And the pan was filled with food.
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“I found the pan filled with food.”
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The children looked at the full, steaming pot. Nobody said a word. They just knew.
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Ann kneeled down. And all her children kneeled with her. Together, they thanked God for his goodness.
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“I kneeled with my family and thanked God for his goodness.”
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That night, Ann's family had enough. Every one of them.
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“That night my family had sufficient food.”
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Two biscuits. Eight people. One miracle. And a mother who always knew where to look for help.
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This book was drawn from the journals, kept 1712-2004.