Shawna Edwards has written songs that help children, youth, and adults feel the doctrine of Christ. One of her most popular songs is called “The Miracle.” The video has been watched over 7 million times on YouTube.
On a recent episode of the All In podcast, Shawna shared a touching miracle that came about through the song.
A Primary Program Miracle
Shawna’s cousin has an autistic son who she says had never sung a word before in Primary. Every year, he would stand up with the other Primary kids during their sacrament meeting program, but keep his mouth shut the whole time.
Then came the day of his very last Primary program, and as usual, he did not sing for most of the meeting. “The Miracle” was the last song of the program, and the plan was for an older Primary girl to sing the last line—“the miracle that rescues you and me”—as a solo at the microphone.
But then, the unexpected happened.
“As she was going to come up to the mic, my cousin’s son started to move towards the mic [too],’’ Shawna says. “And he stepped in front of that girl, and he sang the last line himself.”
When the boy’s parents tried to apologize to the girl and her parents, they—and everyone else in the ward—told them they felt they’d seen a miracle watching the boy sing.
Stories like these are why Shawna loves writing spiritual music. It isn’t about online views or personal acclaim, but about the Lord touching hearts one at a time through inspired songs.
“I have maybe 65 songs on YouTube, and there isn’t ... one of them that wasn’t accompanied [by] multiple miracles. I could tell you a million of them,” Shawna says. “I feel like there are ‘song miracles,’ where someone is writing a song and they are given the words … that are just the perfect words for someone else to hear at a specific time. And I believe the Lord sends that song to that person.”
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