Yesterday we went to the slum again and this time as we were leaving the locality, a lady called us. She said, "Please come to my house, my mother is sick. Please pray for her." So we go to her home, a tiny wooden house on the side of the road, and wait to meet her mom. It turned out that her mom wasn't really physically sick, but the day before, while working in the garden she had lost her ring. It was a very special ring that her parents had given her before she had married, a thick gold band with a jewel that she had treasured for many years. She was heart-broken as she shared with us her loss and asked for us to pray.
Earlier that morning I had been doing a Bible Study on love and it was talking about the parable of the woman who had lost a silver coin, and when she had found it she called all of her friends so that they could rejoice with one another. The main point was that we were to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. True friendship and love is laying our lives down for one another and esteeming each other higher than ourselves.
So as this lady was sharing this situation, I remembered these things and we felt that we should go and search in her garden for the ring. We went outside and were a bit overwhelmed at the garden and the possiblity of finding a ring there. It was literally like looking for a needle in a haystack and they had already searched the whole day for it. But it was really on our heart to look and we split up in different parts of the garden and started searching and sifting through the dirt, praying for God to give us wisdom. There were several boys from the neighborhood looking at us and laughing, we must have been a sight. After about 7-8 minutes, my friend Lipok shouted, "I found it!" We were so incredibly happy and brought the ring to the mother and she was so surprised and full of joy. We felt as if we had lost and found a precious ring ourselves. She wouldn't stop thanking us and invited us to come to dinner on Sunday. We prayed for her and her daughter and we left their little home so happy, like we saw a real miracle with our very eyes.
