gratitude: Day 7

Today, I'm Grateful for

an answered prayer.

five days ago, i lost my cell phone.

i went out on a late-afternoon walk.

when i returned home

the cell phone was gone.

i figured that eli had dropped it

when he was listening to his tunes.

i re-traced our walking route

but found it nowhere.

three different times

i patted down the stroller

thinking it was hiding in there somewhere

all to no avail.

what made me the most anxious?

all of my videos from russia 7 months ago

were still on that phone.

I had never figured out how to download them

to my computer.

I worried that all of anya's memories of russia

would fade away

with only a few pictures.

this morning, when i woke

the first thought that came to my mind

was this:

"i'm going to find my cell phone today."

i knelt down and prayed to God

reminding Him how important

those russia videos were to us.

i plead with Him to please bring to my mind

the place where my cell phone was hiding.

this morning

unlike the past five days

i expected an answer.

my first thought was to go out to the garage.

i looked at the stroller again

knowing full-well that i had already searched it

three times

but thought i should check it once more.

almost as if a light bulb had turned on 

i remembered:

the canopy was folded up

and i hadn't checked

inside the folds.

there it was.

my beautiful, bright pink phone.

immediately, tears sprang to my eyes.

Jesus loves me.

after whispering a prayer of thanks

for leading me directly to my phone

my next thought was something like this:

WAAAAAA HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I love you, I love you

my cute little pink phone. I love you!



Sadie and Jenna doing the Toyota jump for me.



once again, i was reminded

that the Lord cares about the very details of our lives

and hears our prayers.