Hi Phil,

Oh I can totally relate to what you are saying about flatware. lol.

I pray for stuff like this all the time. lol.

I'm missing 3 forks and I hate that, as I can't replace them.

I'm a real fussy person about missing flatware, 
and we don't even have any children, but it seems 
that sometimes in large gatherings or meals, 
something gets lost, and I think it gets put into the trash.

That's why, even if the flatware isn't used at 
the table, I still put it in the dish washer., 
because it has been handled by people

I bet I have more flatware than most people. lol. 
I love flatware, so I use to buy a lot of it. lol..

I think I have enough flatware to feed about 80 people. lol.

I know how it is about dropping pills, too. We 
don't have animals here, but one time, I almost accidently took the wrong pill.

Those are two great answers to prayers, and I'm 
so happy the dog that swallowed the pill, is okay. ,smile>


Thanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.


At 04:07 PM 2/25/2016, you wrote:
>Over the years, we have gone through many sets 
>of flatware.  Our children, regardless of how 
>much we told them, would take a fork or spoon 
>and knife for something and never returning it, 
>our set would be incomplete.  We have joked, 
>even just recently, that now that it is just us, 
>Phil and Sandy, we have been able to keep the 
>silverware all together.  Well, a few days ago, 
>Sandy was unloading the dishwasher and when she 
>put the silverware away in the drawer, you 
>guessed, a large spoon, out of the 8 we should 
>have, was missing.  We both took turns looking 
>everywhere.  I finally started praying.  I 
>looked in the dishwasher twice.  I even rolled 
>the bottom rack out and felt to see if it had 
>fallen out of the silverware holder and into the 
>bottom but there was nothing there.  A couple of 
>three days passed.  Sandy was talking about 
>where that spoon could have gone.  I began 
>praying.  “Lord,” I said, “If you don’t 
>bring that spoon to us, I’m going to have to 
>get on echurch and asked my friends to pray with 
>me about this.  I don’t care where the spoon 
>went and I don’t care if it got tossed into 
>the trash compactor and is now under 50 feet of 
>garbage at the city dump.  You know where that 
>spoon is and this is important to my wife.  Send 
>an angel, if you have to, and have the spoon put 
>where one of us can find it.”  The next day, I 
>came walking up the four steps out of my office 
>into our kitchen and Sandy said, “I found that 
>spoon!”  “Where did you find it,” I 
>quickly asked.  Sandy said she didn’t know 
>because she had just counted the spoons and now 
>there were 8 instead of seven.  I had personally 
>counted those spoons, and all the other 
>silverware so I knew there were exactly 7 
>spoons.  I counted them twice to make 
>certain.  Only 7 spoons in the drawer of 
>silverware holder.  Neither of us had found an 
>extra spoon    nor put any  silverware into the 
>drawer.  So how do you think that spoon got there?
>
>Secondly, Sandy dropped a small pill the other 
>day and it was something that could be harmful 
>to animals.  I crawled around on my hands and 
>knees until I couldn’t move again and found 
>nothing.  Gretchen came over and looked and so 
>did big Everett.  It wasn’t there.  Later, I 
>felt around again where it hit the floor and was 
>praying when I heard a voice say, “It isn’t 
>in the kitchen.  Pray for the dogs.”  I 
>started praying for our dogs.  Within a couple 
>of hours, one of our little dachshunds got very 
>sleepy and in the morning, he was so slow and 
>sleepy, he could not eat his breakfast. The drug 
>he had swallowed wore off by noon so by the 
>afternoon, he was eating again.  God answered my prayers again.
>
>Phil.