Lost Phone....Again!

Yesterday I misplaced my phone.  Ugh.  You know that feeling....it's like a lump in the pit of your stomach and feels like a small disaster is lurking at the edges of your mind.  I stood there waiting for cold cuts at the grocery store and went to check my phone so as to pass the time.....(probably time for another round of candy crush soda..LOL)  And it was gone....not in my pockets, my pocketbook....no where I could find.  Now the time is ticking by, waiting waiting waiting for what seemed like the slowest deli guy in the world to finish my order.  All I wanted to do was run to my car and see if it was there, Run back to Target to see if I left it there.  (which is what I thought since it was the last time I used it) Every muscle in my body was screaming TENSION!!  And I kept saying to myself..."I will trust You Lord.  I will praise You."  All the lessons He's been giving in trusting and thanking in difficult situations, I stood there trying to put into practice.  My brain wanted to panic and complain against the Lord, but yaaay me I stood my ground...I praised and thanked !!  Then I got to the register.  And the really nice cashier was talking to me, and talking to me, and talking to me!  LOL This was just getting better and better.  The Lord was really stretching this out, stretching my faith. Ugh!!  This did NOT feel good.  But I continued to praise and thank.  Every muscle stressed, my mind wanting to freak out....but I didn't give in.  Now, before anyone thinks this is about me, it's not.....it's all about the Holy Spirit and how He worked that victory in me.

So I get to my car, and there are to many bags to really search, but it's only a quick car ride home so I drive home (and of course had to wait for 2 people to make turns into the traffic!) and use the house phone to call my cell.  Oh happy day!!  I hear the beautiful sounds of Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train in my car.  Ok, but here is the real blessing...the real joy giver.  It was not that I found my phone.  Yes that was great and I was and am very glad.  But it was the fact that the Holy Spirit worked in me the victory of praise and thanksgiving during this trial.  I was so overjoyed at that progress. When everything in me wanted to run screaming at the Lord, complaining about why He allowed this and how could He do this to  me when He knew my time and money was so tight...I thanked Him.  And I praised.  And I trusted.  And if that is not a beautiful work He did in my heart I don't know what is.  I am so grateful for this victory.  And I pray that it continues and becomes my "go to" reaction more and more.

Lord, I thank You know for the victories You give in our lives.  Please help us to see them and You more each day.