Well I believe what happened today was definatley a small miracle. If youe have been following my posts you will know that yesterday I lost my wedding ring. I will recap.
Yesterday afternoon I went swimming with my daughter. It was very sunny so I put some sun block on her. We were swimming for a bit and playing, I picked her up and tossed her. My hands must have been slippery from the sun block because when I threw her my ring went flying off of my finger. There were some kids there with googles and we looked for about an hour, it was gone. It was gone what could I do. I was bummed. We left. All the rest of the day when I looked at my finger I felt naked.
This morning when I woke up first thing I see when I open my eyes is my ringless finger. Kinda hit me in the gut you know.... So about 12 I say to my girl lets go swimming. I wanted to look around some more, but did not have any real hope. She did not want to go because she was playing with friends. About 1:30 she comes in the house and sez, "now is the time to go swimming"
We get there as I am pulling into the parking lot there is this older guy just loading a metal detector into his trunk up ahead of where I was gonna park. I was not going to bother him, but something pushed me a bit. I pull up and ask, "Say you didnt happen to find a wedding band did you?" he is like "no, you must be the guy that the lifeguards told me about, you lost your ring yesterday" "Yeah, hey does that thing work in the water?" He gets this look like, awww crap I was just gonna leave......he asks, "do you know about where you lost it?" "Yup, I could probably get within 15 feet I think" He sez, "Well I dont have alot of time but I will do a quick scan for you, but dont hold your breath, lots of people are out here doing this, it was probably found already........"
So we go out in the water. I get to the spot I think I lost it. He sez just stay put and I will do a 20 foot sweep. He goes back and forth about 3 times, and sez "sorry, it is probably gone" then tells me, "move lets check where you were standing"
"hey I got something" he scoops up a sifter type shovel of sand and as the sand washes away THERE IS MY RING!!!!!!! "Is this yours and hands it to me" yup it fit like a charm, I thank him, but I am choking up, (and am again as I type this) I tell him to give me his adress so I can send him a reward and he is like forget about it, leave it at home next time you go swimming, and walks away. I went and sat down on a bench and cried for a bit........ It is now back on my finger where it belongs.
I am trying to see all the messages in this incident that God is trying to show me........there are alot of them I think.
Wife came and picked up our daughter about 1/2 hour ago. She was in her usual grumpy Sunday night mood. I noticed that she was wearing a ring, not her wedding band and not even on her left hand. Seems to me that she was not in a very good place though, we did discuss a little scheduling. I was pretty PMAish throughout. Dont know what is gonna happen there though.
I suppose if you truly let something go sometimes you get it back, and sometimes you dont...............
