I forgot to change the subject line on that last message about Sandy.  Sorry about that but here is an unusual answer to prayer.

Sandy has this thing about not having all her flatware.  When our kids were little, or younger, they would take silverware and use it elsewhere,  even outside the house, , and then it would get separated from the total number of spoons, forks, knives and so on.  We bought so many sets of flatware over the years, I can’t believe it.  We were talking the other day that this current set has lasted longer than any other set we had, due to the fact our kids are moved out and have their own silverware to worry about, if you get my meaning.  So, in the last couple of days, Sandy noticed a fork was missing so we had only 7 instead of the 8 which came with the set.  I looked for it in the drawer but it wasn’t there.  I checked the counters and a couple of other likely places but found nothing.  So then I broke down and prayed a couple of times that the Lord would find it for us.  Plus, I kept telling Sandy, when she made mention of it, that the fork would be found.  My mouth was saying it but my brain was saying, no chance.  Yesterday, when I prayed in my thoughts about the fork, a picture flashed into my mind of Gretchen taking the fork out of the house but I had no such memory of that happening.  The vision was so real, on the other hand, I felt strongly that my daughter had the fork.  Sandy asked her today and she said she did have it and would bring it back.  Now, is that weird or what?

So, just before I typed this email, Sandy called me to leave my office and come up the 5 stairs to the kitchen.  She had knocked something off the top of the refrigerator.  She confessed she did not know what it was or even the noise it made hitting the floor.  I checked a couple of places around the refrigerator and found nothing so I prayed and told the Lord I did not even know what I was looking for.  Getting down on all fours isn’t very nice to my back and legs so I was feeling with my foot while I was in the middle of the prayer when my foot touched a box.  I showed it to my wife and she said that was it.  Tell me again it doesn’t work?

Phil.