Lost and Found

I was talking on the phone to a friend back in April during the Duke vs. Butler NCAA Basketball game.  It was the championship game and it went all the way down to the last few minutes before Duke emerged victorious.

I walked through the house, talking animatedly while taking off my jewelry.  I was rooting for Duke, of course, and telling her why North Carolina basketball teams are the best.

When I started taking off my earrings, I noticed that I only had on one earring.  I was so distracted by the game and my intense debate that I didn’t think too much about it that night.

I spent the next day looking all over the house for it.  I looked EVERYWHERE…on the kitchen table where I was working, on the couches, in the bedroom, in my jewelry box…you name it, I looked there.

After a while, I started to get sad because I wore these earrings often.  My husband gave them to me on a special occasion and I really liked them.  They were white gold hoop earrings with little diamonds in the hoop part.

At the end of April, I had a lot of family come in town for my husband’s promotion.  I moved furniture and cleaned like crazy.  We also had a lot of get togethers at our house with our friends in May.  I never found the earring.

For Mother’s Day, I asked my husband to buy me some earrings to replace the ones I lost.  He let Little Man pick some out for me and I had to smile when I saw them.  They looked just like the earrings I had, except they were sterling silver and cubic zirconia.  Little Man really liked those earrings for me.  When I opened the earring box, he got excited because he knew he chose them.  I wore them with pride because my baby picked them out just for me.

Time starts passing.

June comes and goes.

July comes and goes.

I vacuumed, dusted, moved furniture, and washed clothes about 100 times since April.  

At least weekly, I asked God to reveal to me the location of my earring.

Fast forward to late Monday night:

I was up pretty late.  Everyone had gone to bed and I was FINALLY settling down for some “me time”.  I had a rough day and was feeling kinda down.  I walked out of the kitchen into the living room, getting ready to grab a pillow to lay on the couch and read when I saw something glitter out of the corner of my eye.  I looked down and guess what I saw?

You guessed it, my earring!!

Now let me tell you.  My earring, which had been lost for over 4 months, was lying in the middle of the living room floor.  It wasn’t under a coffee table or under the couch.  It was in the middle of the floor!  

There is no way that I could have missed this earring for 4 months if it had always been in this location.

I was so surprised and happy that I started laughing.

I went to the bedroom to check and make sure that my other earring was still there and it was.  I held the matching earrings in my hands with a heart full of joy.

I have no idea how my earring got to the middle of my living room floor and stayed somewhere in that area for over 4 months without getting vacuumed or moved to Little Man’s toy box.  You know how Little Man likes to do magic tricks.

Thank you Lord for brightening a challenging day and answering my prayer.

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