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Comfort in Prayer

In 1983, to support his family, Dean found himself working three to four jobs just to make ends meet. 

One of his part time jobs was driving a laundry truck for a local hospital.  He would take the truck and go to West Valley, to Lakeview, to Bonneville, and then on up to Brigham City. And this would take about three or four hours a day. And then he would come home, usually between five or eight in the morning, then he would go out and lay brick all day. 

He described that during that time, he was exhausted. So many times, the exhaustion was more than he could bear because he was running that hard on only three to four hours of sleep a night. At the same time,  Dean and his wife, Jolene, were preparing for a court trial in Farmington, a court battle over their home. He was stressed with the anxiety of how that trial would actually turn out. All of this piled on Dean’s shoulders. The weight of worry and stress and grief  can be overwhelming. 

Well, it was during that time that Dean said he taught himself to pray while driving.  He would pray and sing hymns as much as anything, to stay awake, as well as to connect with Heavenly Father.

The trial on their home was still about six weeks away. And one day, while Dean was on his way home, he had come past Brigham City, made his stop, and was just passing Hill Air Force Base in the attitude of deep, meaningful, purposeful prayer.  The feeling of discouragement that weighed down upon him was strong.

Dean said: 

“I wondered how I could go on.  Then, I had this warm, comforting feeling come over me and I sensed the outcome of the trial. My heart raced and I knew  that everything was going to be alright, that the trial would come down in our favor.”

He told his wife about it as much for her comfort as for anything. 

The day of the trial came.  They were in court for six hours.  And when the verdict was rendered,  it was in their favor.  Dean said there was a great deal of comfort in knowing the outcome for those weeks before the trial.  

There is comfort in prayer. 

Source:

Dean Schick