After last night’s neat little incident,
I thought I must share on the blog. It may be simply silly to most of you….but
to me….its miraculous.
First, Read our engagement story, if you
haven’t yet..Click Here
Ive been keeping a cute book since Pete
and I got engaged..FULL of our proposal story, pictures, shower invitations,
every sweet card and all of our gift notes etc..and it was getting pretty big. And ALSO pretty special…to me anyways.
Particularly the very front page, be it the letter that Pete wrote me when he
proposed with Ruth 1: 16-17.
Well, on Saturday morning before work, I
decided to take the book into town with me and print off some more pics of my
last shower and then put them in and show Pete’s mom that afternoon. I had
planned to show her my masterpiece!…When I got to their house, my book was
missing. I thought nothing about it, thinking
I just left it on my bed at home. O well, right?
Pete says its not in the car. Mom says it has
to be in the car (and that Pete is a boy and boys don’t know how to look for
things haha). ….Besides the point, I
CANT FIND IT! So ofcourse, im crying...
And then I remembered: I made a HUGE mistake. On Saturday, my car was locked when I was
leaving for work and in order to find the key in my purse, I put the book on my
car roof. YEP. Go me. TALK ABOUT FREAK OUT SOME MORE!
So,,, Mom and I go outside and search the driveway with flashlights, hoping it just slipped off close by. No luck. So then I’m sitting at the bar BALLING MY EYES OUT, when mom says “Sam, whats so irreplaceable, why cant we print more pics, and people will give you more cards” …..to which I cry even louder, “the letter that Pete proposed with is in it. It’s got the verse. It says he loves me. Im supposed to give it to my children! ”
…Bobbie Faye tells me to get it in the
car. ( it is almost midnight by now AND IT IS RAINING!!!!)
I’m thinking shes crazy, its gone. I
know its gone. Ive already searched our
¼ of a mile driveway. It fell off
and the dogs took it to the woods. “You Are crazy Bobbie…”
And so we go to driving down the road…and a little ways down, Mom suddenly stops the car. There is my
precious sopping wet book in two pieces on the side of the road. My heart stopped.
But there are no pages, and there is no letter….
We
jump out, car still running in the middle of the highway, and begin searching. I
felt as if I was searching a murder scene out of movie, with creepy rain,
flashlights, and an old highway. ( They are doing a lot of construction on Hwy
305 and one side is a muddy mess with a standing river of trash and the other
side is a deep ditch). Mom hit the ditch
and I hit the mud side. She finds a book
page with one card!!! But, Im still
falling deep into the mud in cowboy boots and pajamas, just crying…. So After
about ten minutes of searching , I asked to myself “God, just please let me find this letter,
this verse from your book of Ruth” and then I hear that sweet Mom scream… “IVE
GOT THE LETTER!!!!”
Filled with laughter and tears, I am then
jumping up and down in the middle of the highway in the RAIN wearing cowboy
boots and jammies. And let me also add that I am now realizing at this moment
that BOBBIE isn’t even wearing pants, or shoes. Just a bigo t shirt. ..But who
cares? We found it!!
One card from the sweet Ross family whom
we had counseling with earlier on Sunday :) One page of pictures from the engagement
party, and 2 white tags From: the Alfords, and Charlie and Vonda Sink. That is
all I have left of my pecious wedding book.
But I
HAVE MY SWEET LETTER THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME, and God did that………….
Just when you think all is lost, He finds you.
