The Miraculous Finding of a Missing iPhone in the Snow!
“Mom, God told me the phone is not here. It’s at the top of the hill!” our younger daughter said matter-of-factly to Kristen as they both were searching through the snow for our Japanese friend's lost iPhone. Kristen responded, “Ok, then go look up there!” For a while already that morning, Kristen and she had been on their knees digging all over the hillside with gloved hands through a foot or more of powdery snow. Also, the night before, we had searched for half an hour after the phone had dropped from a friend's coat pocket during one of her falls zooming down a hill cross-country skiing. The search was proving to be like finding a needle in a haystack.
The night before, we had taken two international friends cross-country skiing. I had prayed, “Lord, what a testimony it would be to these two women if you answered our prayers to find the phone one of them had lost! If You lead us to this phone, we’ll give you the credit and make sure they know it was You who led us to it!”
When our daughter felt a strong conviction in her heart to go to the top of the hill, she went beyond where Kristen had been searching, beyond where most people begin skiing down the hill. Sure enough, promptly after she climbed to the top of the hill, she peered down in the snow at her feet, and there, hidden under some trampled-down snow covered in ski-tracks, was something dark. She brushed aside some snow and there was this woman's sorely missed iPhone! Amazing!
To be true to our promise, we gave praise to God for leading our daughter, as we told these two friends, and some other international friends, the story about how God had answered prayers.