Penny Lane

Dear reader,
I have a story to tell you. It involves on Jeannette and one Kellie late last night. Said Kellie was washing her hands in her bathroom when her special diamond heart ring from her mommie slipped off into the stopper. Kellie screamed for Jeannette in such a manner that Jeannette thought her arm was torn off or her nose was broken or something. Why Jeannette assumed Kellie's nose of all things was broken is irrelevant. Whilst KJbaby were, like girls, whimpering and trying to fetch the ring, they somehow managed to drop it FURTHER into Kellie's plumbing system. Kellie started freaking out because plumbing wasn't and never will be her thing. The fair maidens decided to wait out the night, put a frantic sign on the sink, and let Kellie's big strong burly boyfriend, Matthew Thorley fix the situation. Pretty much they did what any smart girl would do, and left it to the real men.

Kellie went to bed sad, and Jeannette with a prayer in her heart that Kellie's priceless ring wouldn't get washed away to the fishes or the trash or whatever kids put in the ocean these days. The next morning after Kellie's shower, she saw a sparkle out of the corner of her eye on her desk in her room. Guess what it was? Her earrings? An armadillo? NO!?!?! It was her RING! SAID ring! The ring that 100% fell down her sink just hours before!!!! WHAT THE WHAT? Blarg...

So the ring situation was fixed, but what fell down the sink? Kellie was SURE that she had her ring on that night, and something slipped off her finger into the great hairy abyss that was her plumbing. Once Matthew Thorley came to the rescue, with crow bars and shiny tools and wrenches and dragons and stuff, the plot thickened. None other than a FIJI PENNY was in the U-bend in place of Kellie's ring.

Some might say that this was all a misunderstanding. Fools, I say. Some would say that Kellie was drunk on too many Mocktails to realize that she really took her ring off earlier that night for some odd reason. IDIOTAS! I suppose a toast...whatever happened, whether God magically transported my ring in the middle of the night and replaced it with a Fiji Penny, or if this was all some weird big daydream..what I have learned is just the same.

God is in our everyday lives. If we don't feel Him, it's because we're not trying hard enough. I don't know what happened, but I do know that through this strange, strange experience, I have been able to see God's hand in my life and reflect on how else He has blessed me.

So the moral of the story is, if you have a nice ring and you're washing your hands and it slips down the sink, pray to God to replace it with a penny (any country will do, I suppose), and maybe, just MAYBE, He'll be nice and put your ring on your desk for you. Just a thought.