I have a lovely pair of 28 carat gold earrings that my father-in-law brought back to me from Saudi Arabia early in my marriage. The earrings are simple and beautiful…and for many years, I wore them exclusively.
When my late husband finished dental school and we moved to a new city, one earring was lost in the move. I was heartbroken. Being a sentimental fool, I saved the remaining earring and put it in my keepsake box. A year later, while moving from a rental home to our brand new home, I rolled up a rug and there, dangling from the underside was that missing earring! What good luck!
Years later, at a weekend long soccer tournament, I lost one of those earrings again on the first day of the tournament. Discovering the loss at the hotel that night, I was again heartbroken. It rained the whole next day, but soccer play didn't stop. I walked multiple fields looking for the lost earring with no luck. On the last day of the tournament, heading back to our car, I spotted something shiny on the ground. Yes, it was my missing earring. Serendipity!
Last week, I noticed early in the work day that one of my beloved earrings was again missing. I had people all over my school looking for my earring. After several days of fruitless searching, we gave up. Sadness again. Sigh. Then, over the weekend, while taking out the trash, bam…there was my earring…right by the wheel of my car. How fortune!
It's a joy to find lost things...
In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Luna Lovegood, seeking to comfort Harry, asserts, “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
I lost the love of my life.
How will my love come back to me?
I'm looking forward to the unexpected.
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Cyna
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