UPFRONT September 18, 2006 Issue

The 'everywhere' fact

INGRID PESCHKE, STAFF EDITOR

Recently, our family spent an evening at our favorite beach an hour's drive from our home. When it came time to leave, our eight-year-old daughter's eyeglasses were nowhere to be found. There were only a few folks left on the beach—including some girls who used the light from their cellphones to help us search. But no glasses turned up. As we were about to give up, I thought, "How could such a happy evening end like this? Since God truly is everywhere, I know He has an answer."

At that moment, a man suddenly approached us in the darkness. Although he didn't have a flashlight, he offered to look for the glasses the following morning on his regular pre-dawn beach walk. Imagine our meeting not only a local, but a guy who was probably one of the first few to walk the beach in the morning.

The next day, I looked up his phone number on the Internet and gave him a call. "I'm so glad you called me," he said. "I asked the Lord to help me find those glasses morning." He said that after five times of going up and down the beach, he'd been about to give up, but that something told him to turn around one last time. As he did so, he saw a glint of sunlight like a flash in the sand. "And there," he said," almost buried, I saw the eyeglasses!" I think he was as I was by experience.

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