A Little Prayer

We here the stories of children losing something and, unable to find it on their own, they petition the Lord for help.  I suppose there are plenty of adult stories regarding the same.  Some how after the prayer is offered their is some sort of inspiration and that which is lost is found.  Today I had such an experience. 

I was walking out the door when I remembered a check that I had in an envelope hanging on the fridge door by a magnet.  I went back in the house to get it only to find that it was gone.  That started me searching the house trying to find it.  I checked the spots that I thought it might be glanced at a stack of school papers that I have for the kids, looked on top of the fridge, pulled out the fridge to look behind it and under it, looked in the office, looked in my room, looked in my computer bag.  It was gone.  There was absolutely no sign of it and I was a bit sick thinking it was gone. 

It hit me to simply kneel and ask the Lord for help.  I did so.  My biggest fear was that I accidentally threw it away or that one of the kids took the envelope for a craft project and it was destroyed.  I prayed that I would be able to find it.  Perhaps lacking faith that it was still around I also prayed that I would handle its loss well and that we would be able to make due with out it.  I got up and went back in to the kitchen.  I started to look through the pile of school papers once again, a bit closer.  I went through the stack one piece at a time and there it was. 

Upon finding the check I paused again and offered a prayer of gratitude.  I suppose that I could walk away from that feeling the Lord had nothing to do with it, it was just chance.  You know, I don't think it was just chance.  I had no reason to believe that the check would be in that stack.  I had already glanced through it once and it was not there.  I just felt to look there again.  It was simple faith really, simple faith in a little prayer. 

I am grateful for that experience.  I am grateful for the inspiration that came.  I am grateful for prayer - even a little one.  I know that the Lord hears us.  He knows who we are.  He rewards our simple faith.