It's the small things

I have a little story.

Over the Christmas break I took a nap at my parents house. I was wearing some gold plated stud earrings and took one of them out to sleep as it was jamming into the side of my head and placed it on the arm of the rocking chair next to the bed. An hour or two later I woke up, hung out with the family and then packed the kids in the car to head home.

And totally forgot about my earring.

I had the other one still in my ear when I got home and put it away for safekeeping.

A few days later I wanted to wear that set of earrings and realized again that it was at my parent's house. I texted my mom to have her look for it but she couldn't see it anywhere. It was so small and people had been in and out of her house during the holidays so I kind of gave it up for lost.

It wasn't a major thing to lose it- but I was bummed as I wear that pair often and didn't have money to get a new set.

So then a few weeks went by and I totally forgot about it.

Until one morning this week when a little miracle happened.

I was in the car driving Lauren's carpool to middle school and happened to look down on my floor mat. I felt my foot slide over something as I was getting situated and once I parked I took a minute to look down.

And there on the mat was my other earring.

I couldn't even believe it.

It was weeks later, I had taken it out and put it on a chair in my moms house and had given it up for lost. But there it was, shining up at me from the floor of my car.

I don't know how it happened. It seems almost impossible that it was gone and then there one morning as I drove kids to school.

But there it was and now I have my complete set again.

I know that for most people this would be just a matter of coincidence.

But for me it was a direct message from heaven.

The past week I have been pretty discouraged and feeling a bit alone and adrift. Life can be hard and with sick kids and dreary weather I was feeling overwhelmed and forgotten.

But finding that small stud earring this week was a message to me that I am known to God. He is aware of even the smallest, insignificant details of my life and cares for my worries and troubles.

And if He cares enough to bring one earring of a set back to me, then I can believe that He cares SO much more for the little souls I am raising and my own worries and troubles. He cares that I am found-kept-and bound to Him by the love of the Savior.

And He cares that much for you.

Alma 37: 6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.

It really is the small things.