The sun was shining on them

Forgive me for my inability to post the last few days.  We had a family situation that required immediate and constant attention.

On Friday, my 97 year old father-in-law had a stroke.  We received a call that while checking his mail, he had a stroke causing him to fall into a ditch.  Some passerbys found him and assisted him to getting back in to his house.  A neighbor called us.

We immediately went to his side.  He would not go to the hospital and in respecting his wishes, we honored that.  He suffers from mini strokes and has always recovered within a few hours.  True to form, within 2-3 hours, his speech was restored although he had no memory of the incident. 

We got him to bed and went home for the night as he refused to have us stay with him.  In the morning, when I returned, the early bird was already up and dressed sitting in his chair.  We talked for a bit and he told me that he had lost his glasses.  He feared they were in the ditch and would be ruined by a mower.  I proceeded to walk out to the ditch and I looked everywhere but could not locate them. 

My husband arrived shortly thereafter and I told him about the glasses.  He also went out to the ditch and looked...no glasses.  He came in with the bad news and my father in law was saddened because he said that he can not read the paper, write or watch TV without them [you know he was better if he wanted to watch Gunsmoke].

I told my husband "Let's go back there and look again!  We have to find those glasses."  As we neared the ditch, I began praying.  I prayed that God would open our eyes so that we could locate those glasses.  Once there, I went into my "investigator" mode.  I told my husband that if the stroke was so serious that it brought him down, his arms probably flung out making the radius of the landing wider.  Having said that,  I prayed in open voice, "Father, help us find those glasses."  With that, I looked wider and saw the glasses shining in the grass.

My husband said that when he heard me yell "I found them," he immediately saw them. He said "I saw them because the sun was shining on them." 

I would venture to say that we found the glasses not because the sun was shining on them, but because the "Son" was shining on them [us]!

Who is it that overcomes the world?  Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.  1 John 5:5


We are grateful for all the prayers as my father-in-law continues to improve.