We arrived home on August 3rd and went to unpacking out house which had been rented while my family was in Oxford for the Spring. My room had been the dumping ground for all of our personal stuff because my father used it for sleeping while on business back in the States. So I started to unearth loads of cloths, luggage, papers, and lots of other stuff. I was looking for one article that had some important devices of mine. It was a black laptop bag that held my iPhone, Dell m1530 and some small writing items. As usual for something you are looking for the bag was missing even after basically turning my room upside down and shaking it. We then turned to searching our neighbors house which was another landing zone of my father and I but with no results.
So I started to get plan B ready, I need a new phone and a new computer. Then I looked around my room and there was an old flip phone and an old Desktop. When I mean old I mean really old, the Nokia was five years worn, and the Dell Desktop at least ten. After playing with both of them I decided that these would meet my needs, the phone calls and texts, the computer can run some basic programs and is reliable.
It was not all that easy because when you lose objects with a face value of over $1500 you don't just shrug your shoulders and say "well schuks" and find replacements. We searched everywhere for this stuff reminding me of the Parable of the Lost coin, when a woman loses one coin and searches and upon finding the coin rejoices. This represents how God searches for each of our hearts and doesn't give up and rejoices when we are found and return to him. I will be writing another blog post explaining a little bit of my story in regards to being lost and found.
The story doesn't end there with a lost set of electronics. After I got the flip phone activated and the Dell running Linux so that it could meet the needs of a computing at Tech we get a call from our neighbor. The bag has been found, it was hiding in a place that was very odd and no one really knew how it go there. I went on down and picked up the stuff very thankful for them finding these items. Now I am back to pre-summer levels of technology with an iPhone, two laptops, and only one brain to take in all of the data of this upcoming semester.
All is Great in the Lord from Frog Orchard