Rings, Sunglasses & Miracles

Last Monday I thought I lost my tanzanite/diamond pinkie ring that Jim bought for me years ago in St. Martin. I wear it almost every single day and remember putting it on that morning. I recently had it re sized and it fit a bit more loosely than before. I was drying my hands and when I was done, looked down and my ring was missing. I began to panic. This is way more than just a ring to me.

I started looking through the garbage and retracing my steps. My heart was palpitating and I was working myself up into a full-blown tizzy. I left work and drove home to look for it there. On the drive home, I kept repeating, “It’s just a ring. It’s just a ring.” That wasn’t helping. I prayed and ask God to help me find it, since He knew where it was.

I rushed into the house, went right to my jewelry drawer and there it was. I thought, “Oh, I didn’t put it on after all today.” But thought that was odd since I wear it every week day. Anyway, I was telling a friend that I found it. I said I guess I didn’t put it on like I thought. Her first comment was, “Or God took it out of the garbage and put it in your drawer before you got home.” Wow!

I pondered that statement the next few days. Why do I not immediately look for the miraculous in my every day life? Why do I assume God takes the easy way? Why is my mind not even trained to think miracles? I have some growing to do. God had a lesson to teach me and He wasn’t done.

I was headed east Thursday morning just like always as I was driving Zach to school. The sun was piercing my eyes. I flipped down my sunglasses holder in my car to grab them and they weren’t there. Hmmmm….I looked through my purse…not there. I looked around the car…not there. I flipped down the holder on my ceiling once again…STILL not there. I remember wearing them to a church meeting the night before, so I get to work and e-mail a lady at church and ask her to scan the area where I was…no glasses.

It’s lunchtime now and I can’t imagine where they are. So I get in my car and figure they must have fallen out in the church parking lot, so I head up there to look for them. As I’m pulling out of my parking spot, I pray for God to help me find them, since once again He knows where they are. I was drawn to flip down the holder in my car for the 4th time. There they were! My eyes popped out of my head. I heard Him say, “I am who I am.”

I’m convinced now that I did put my ring on and God put it back in my drawer for me. I don’t know where my sunglasses were Thursday morning, but at noon they were miraculously put back in the proper spot. Miracles do occur in the midst of the smallest details of our life. But we have to be looking for them.

What a wonderful God we serve that He reveals Himself and His power in something as simple as sunglasses. He is beyond my understanding!