God’s Grace For Senior Couple
My wife and I, each in our mid-eighties, tend often to forget things and to make errors. After 66 years married, we now need each other more than ever.
I was about to return home from my usual Saturday morning forays for estate and garage sales, when I received a call from my distraught wife. My girl loves her rings, more valuable to her than to anyone else, and tearfully told me she could not find them. She always placed them in a transparent snack bag at night. She wears seven or more of them daily. I hurried home and we looked again through all the suspect areas she had searched.
I then remembered that we had put all of our household garbage into a take-out trash bag, and I had taken it to our condo dumpster as I left earlier. She had emptied the kitchen trash container into the takeout bag with me. I said: OK, Babe, I will go fish our garbage out of the dumpster. We sorted through the garbage, piece by piece, and were down to the last bag, the kitchen trash. After just a few soiled things, I spotted the shiny rings in the transparent snack bag. Certainly, my bride was happy!
I said let’s sit down and pray.
My wife gratefully thanked our Creator God, whom we met through His Son, Jesus many decades ago! I repeated her thanks in my prayer. We felt so fortunate that it was early enough in the day that our own trash was not covered by others of the condo building.
Serendipity is the beneficial finding of something unexpectedly. We earnestly ‘hoped’ in searching for the rings in this situation. As Christians, we attributed such beneficent finding to God’s wonderful Grace. The rings were found even in our condo dumpster. They could well have been gone.
God’s Grace is ubiquitous, especially to any claiming Christianity.
Sam & Jeanie Kegley
