Bring Out the Big Guns to Find What is Lost

“Mom!” I heard my seven year old daughter Janessa call from upstairs. She had dropped her tiny rubber shark toy and thought it bounced under my bed. She had looked for it with a flashlight to no avail. Time to bring out the big guns…Mom and her prayers. Janessa knew I always found what I lost and I was about to tell her my top secret. “I always pray and then I find what I’m looking for,” I said. “Can’t we do it some other way?” Janessa asked. “Can’t we just lift up the bed and look for it?” Janessa questioned. I told her that if she wanted my help, we needed to pray.

I accompanied Janessa upstairs wondering how I’d find such a tiny toy under my bed. I said a vocal prayer and included the line that Janessa would learn a lesson on prayer. After my prayer, Janessa asked what lesson she would learn. I told her she’d soon find out. I said my own internal prayer to be guided to find the toy. With flashlight in hand, I prepared to start looking under the bed. Before doing so, I noticed something small in the carpet outside the bed. I asked Janessa if the object was hers. She said, “That’s it!”

Janessa and I said a prayer of thanks and then she asked what lesson she was supposed to learn. I said one lesson was that whatever was important to us, no matter how small (as in tiny sharks), was important to God.

 

Janessa and I also discussed looking in the place we thought instead of where God wanted us to look. I take that as following God’s direction will help us find what our heart is truly seeking.