While on my mission I had a very unique opportunity to meet a woman who although I don’t remember her name taught me a very valuable lesson. I had been serving for a little over a year when my companion and I received a phone call. A woman had been admitted for alcoholism to a rehabilitation facility in the city where I served. While going through rehab she requested that we could come and give her a priesthood blessing. We of course obliged. We went right over to the facility and promptly gave her a blessing. Now for those of you who are not of my faith there are two parts to the blessing. The first part of the blessing is the anointing of oil and is done by one of the priesthood holders. The second part of the blessing is the sealing of the anointing and the blessing. My companion did the first half and I did the second. When you give someone a blessing you ask them their full name (including their middle name) at the beginning so that you can call them by name throughout the blessing.
After I completed the portion of the blessing that the sister request she looked up at me with tears in her eyes and ask me, “How did you know?” I responded with “How did I know what?” She said “How did you know that my friends call me by my middle name?” You see unbeknownst to me I had been calling her by her middle name the entire blessing. I did not intentionally call her by her middle name.
To this day I don’t know why I called her by her middle name. But I do know this, in that moment I knew that it was because God knew this woman and was her friend and he wanted her to know that he loves her, even after all that she had done. God doesn’t know of us, he knows us. We aren’t just a spec on his radar, we are each important to him. After all he said, “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” (Moses 1:39) After all he created us, we are his children. No matter what we have done in this life, no matter how bad we might have been there is hope. God knows us by name individually. We are always loved and we are never alone because God knows us.
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