LOST AND FOUND
Last week, getting ready for my kids to come for ten days with a 1½ and a 3 ½ year old, I was multi-tasking VERY late at night. In the process, I remember picking up my checkbook, which was lying on the kitchen counter, and planning to put it back in the drawer in my bedroom where I keep it. Two days later, when I went to write a very important check, lo and behold, my checkbook was nowhere to be found! I searched and searched, but in vain.
Days later, I remembered one of our old family legends-Sister Elizabeth Deceased! My husband’s sister, Margie, spent 23 years in a convent as a young woman, and during that time, she would often tell us about Sister Elizabeth, a rather ditzy num who was always losing things. She made a vow to all the other nuns (who were always helping her find what she had lost) that after she died and went to Heaven, they could pray to her, and she would help them find what they had lost. However, since there were two “Sister Elizabeths” in the convent, she was very clear that you must always pray to Sister Elizabeth DECEASED. Over the years, we heard miracles about all the things Sister Elizabeth Deceased found for people!
After continuing to search everywhere and worrying about the checkbook for several days, I remembered one night to ask Sister Elizabeth for help. That very night I had a visions and I knew EXACTLY where my checkbook was!
When I was working in the guestroom preparing for the kid’s visit, I must have laid it on the twin bed for a moment. It had fallen down in the tiny space between the frame of the bed and the mattress. Since there are drawers under these beds, I would NEVER have found that checkbook because there is no reason to look under the beds. So, another miracle occurred at 6140 Midnight Pass Road, thanks to Sister Elizabeth Deceased!
Just remember – whenever you lose something, Sister Elizabeth Deceased is there, just waiting to help! 😉 Who says we don’t have work to do in Heaven? (I am just remembering that I lost a new swimsuit on one of my trips this winter – maybe she can help find that, too!)
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