SUPPOSE A WOMAN HAS ONE SILVER CROSS AND LOSES
IT…
by Bobbie Cole
I was
sure God had inspired Ernie to buy me the silver cross and chain he gave me
when my husband and I returned from Israel.
Our
ninety-seven year old, adopted Grandpa was the only person in my life capable
of marking my homecoming with such a present. None of my Jewish blood family
would ever have got me a cross and it was too valuable a gift to ever receive
from friends.
I wore
it often. I couldn’t have worn it in Israel, where we had been living for almost
two years. A Jew of faith in Yeshuah, (Jesus) had to be careful about showing
her true colours.
I had
found that hard.
I’d
prayed about leaving and, recently, God had seemed to be saying He was okay
about it.
My
Jewish believer colleagues at the congregation where I worked had thought I was
mishearing.
Gladly, I
took the silver cross as His confirmation.
One
evening, about six months later, I reached to finger it during supper and it
wasn’t there. Panic surged.
There
were so many places it might be. It had been a busy Saturday. I’d gardened, I’d visited my son, parking away from his
house in the street, I’d dropped by the supermarket for some groceries, I’d
cooked.
My
husband, Butch, and I looked high and low, without success. We made calls. It was too dark for a search outside. That would
have to wait until morning.
At the
end of a long night filled with hot tears, dawn found Butch making a minute search
of the garden while I sat in bed, asking God to show me where the cross was.
I came
down the stairs knowing exactly where to look.
‘It’s
not out there,’ he called, as I went through the back door. ‘I’ve looked
everywhere.’
But, curled
around the lower branches of the hydrangea bush, dangled my cross on its chain,
intact and unbroken.
I
rejoiced like the woman in the parable who found her silver coin.
It was
from God, all of it, I was certain. For didn’t this loss make the silver cross
even more precious to me? And hadn’t He directed me
miraculously straight to where I would find it?
Bobbie Ann Cole, AKA ‘The Testimony Lady’,
teaches people how to share their encounters with Jesus effectively. She blogs
and offers advice at http://testimonytrain.com, where
you’ll find her FREE Workbook, ‘Start Writing Your Christian Testimony’. She is
now training group leaders to teach the Write Your Testimony Course she has
devised.
Her own faith memoir, ‘She Does Not Fear the
Snow’ (www.shedoesnotfearthesnow.com) is
receiving wide acclaim.
She and her husband divide their time between
Atlantic Canada and her native UK.
‘She Does Not Fear the Snow’ is the unfolding of two love stories, one human,
one divine. God began to pick
up the pieces of her broken life in a Jerusalem church where, as a Jew,
she thought she wasn’t supposed to be. From there, He laid a trail of miracles
that led her from her native England to a new husband of faith in Atlantic
Canada.
Claimed in the Land of Israel and blessed with
love, her story parallels that of biblical Ruth.
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