Date: 2008-12-26
To: Found My Head Lamp!
Miles today: 0.0

Check Six¢s Thoughts ¢I found my headlamp! In a place I never would have thought to look had I not been looking for something else. I was looking for an item I wanted to give a friend for Christmas, but couldn¢t find the day before, so I decided to look in a box in a store room where I was positive it wouldn¢t be. I figured I would check there anyway. As I suspected, the item was not in the box. While looking there, something moved me to organize the store room. The last time I thoroughly organized that store room was 6 years ago, and I had no plans to do it again before we start our hike in March. As I straightened things in the store room, I found myself doing a very thorough job - because it felt right, and I had the time. Certainly not in my plans for Christmas Eve day, but I found myself enjoying the task, and we didn¢t have other plans until later that day. We have a bunch of soft luggage bags, gym bags, and day packs piled on a shelf in the store room. There wasn¢t a need to straighten the pile of bags, but something made me do it anyway. When I picked up one of the bags, it felt as if there was something in the bag, so I decided to look inside and found a charger plug Old Goat was looking for a couple weeks ago. That made me decide to look in every bag to make sure we didn¢t have things in any of the other bags....and AHA! there was my head lamp! It was in a gym bag I was going to take camping with us in November. I figured I would have things in that gym bag that I could get my hands on quickly when we arrived (mittens, winter hat, my headlamp, etc.).....but decided at the last minute to not bring that bag. I never realized I had neglected to take the head lamp out of the bag. The thing that¢s exciting to me about finding the head lamp is that I had been looking for it for a month now and just two days before I found it I took a moment to ask God to help me find it. I wasn¢t looking for it that day. I had no plans to organize that store room. I am absolutely sure I would NOT have looked in those bags before our hike if I didn¢t feel inspired to do so. The day before this I was surprised to not find the item I was originally looking for (I found it when I finished the store room and went upstairs and looked one more time!!). I knew the item wouldn¢t be in the box that¢s in the store room, but I looked there anyway. The head lamp is no big deal ¢ we easily could have bought another. What I love about this is the clear knowledge of a prayer answered. Yes, this was a frivolous prayer, but it¢s good to know prayers are answered. So often we just can¢t see that.In case you¢re wondering, we ended up with over 3 feet of snow accumulation in 4 days.   Christmas Eve was warm and very rainy, so a LOT of snow melted but we did have a white Christmas because of how much had accumulated over the days before. It¢s snowing like crazy again as I write this ¢ about an inch of snow fell in the last hour. I don¢t know how much we¢re supposed to get this time. Our average winter snowfall is about 130¢ over the whole winter. Only a few days to 2009! An exciting year ahead! I wish everyone a fabulous 2009!!!!