I sought and I found!

Okay so I couldn't be more surprised, grateful and excited about a recent find that showed me how faithful God is to comforting us and supplying our needs, however trite they may be. Check it out.

Senior year of college I had this precious black and blue tea pot and tiny tea cups that my dad brought me from Vietnam. Ashley, Ally and I used them while sitting on our Good Year 23 livingroom floor. I also had a mug from Queretaro, Mexico and two very special handmade animal figures that were on the window sill in that very same apartment - one a glazed ceramic turtle (barro negro) and the other a delicately handpainted armadillo (alebrije is the artwork), both items from Mexico that whenever I saw them reminded me of the value Mexico had in my life.

Well it's been 2 and half years since I last saw all that stuff. I packed them up and left Dickinson but they were no where to be found once I got home. After a few disappointing searches over the years by me and my parents, I resigned to the idea that maybe we packed them up, brought them out to the GY parking lot and place them in a pile to be loaded in the car, which was precisely next to the give away piles near that large truck and then just forgot to get them in the car. I couldn't remember for the life of me who packed the box and carried it out. So overall I was just mindboggled as to what could have happened to so much stuff.

Every so many months I'd revisit the situation and the whole mystery of it drove me nuts over the years and just made me so sad and disappointed in myself - why wasn't I more alert...I always lose stuff....don't I value what I have? ya da ya da.... Then I'd add to this self pity the guilt of the fact that these weren't any old things you could just go buy from pottery barn or target. No, they were from other countries and each had a very special story behind the purchase. So yeah....big bummer.

BUT THEN (!!) tonight I'm sorting through things to bring with me when I move to my new home in DC. Mom points out a big plastic box full of newspaper wrapped items in the most obvious and visible part of the basement. She wondered if if it had Christmas decorations in it, but also suggested that it could be mine.

Opened it up and started unwrapping the paper from one item and I really stumbled a little bit when I saw a tiny black and blue tea cup in my hands. I took the entire box and unwrapped everything finding not just the tea set, but the Qro mug, the turtle and armadillo, a Principia Upper School basketball mug, I'd completely forgotten about, a beautiful ceramic plate made by my brother in law, three little salsa bowls, and a little black ceramic platter with white swirls on it that Carolyn, my brother in law's sister and also a good friend, had bought for me a few years back. I couldn't believe it.

Heck - I don't even need Christmas now! That was the most satisfying unwrapping I've ever done!!!