Watch Found

Watch Found

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Watch Found

Written by Luz Leigh - 01 October 2007

And she called her family and friends together, saying "Come, rejoice with me." This refers to the parable in Luke 15 where Jesus was teaching about the happiness in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner repents. My happiness this morning had nothing to do with a saved sinner ... there was not even another individual involved. But, I did in deed call my daughter and say, "Rejoice with me. I found my watch."

Her reply was, "The one the City gave you?" Yes, that was the one. After completing thirty-seven years of service to my hometown, the City Council presented me with an engraved watch. Of course, the inscription on the back of the watch says "36 years" because as mathematicians will tell you, just subtracting one year from another will not give you the actual number of years worked. If one subtracts 1966 from 2002 the answer is 36; however, if one counts the actual years, the number is thirty-seven. No matter what the inscription says, my family and I know how many years I gave to the city I loved.

My daughter further asked, "Where did you find it? Under your bed?" There is a story behind that, but I will not go into it at this time. I laughed and said, "Nope, it wasn't even in MY bedroom." The last time I remember having the watch was on Christmas day in 2006 when I removed it to wash some dishes as I was preparing dinner. It was not until the next day that I discovered the watch was missing. In my mind's eye, I thought I could see me laying the watch on the dining table.

Because my kitchen is small, and there are not enough counter tops for all that must be done when preparing a large meal, I sometimes use the table to mix certain dishes. I had wiped that table numerous times during the morning, so I decided I had somehow accidentally dropped the watch in the garbage container. Messy as it was, I went through the large garbage container outside my back door. Of course, I found no watch.

It saddened me for a while to have lost the watch. You see those council members were like family to me and I treasured the gift. But I knew it was only a worldly possession, so I moved on.

This morning I was going about my daily tasks, which today included laundering some of my husband's shirts that have been hanging in the extra closet. The shirts were in the washer, water was running to fill the washer, when I happened to see a jacket hanging on a hook just inside the boys' bedroom door. "Hey, I think I will launder that jacket. Cool weather is promised and I just might need it," I thought to myself. When I removed the jacket from the hook, hanging underneath was my apron that I had worn on Christmas day. "May as well wash this too. Soon it will be Christmas," I chuckled to myself. Just before dropping the apron into the now filled washer, something told me to check the pocket. As I ran my hand inside the pocket, I had the most exciting feeling come over me. I knew before I drew the watch from the pocket what I had found.

At that moment I knew I had to write a little story about the "found watch." I wanted to use the parable about the woman finding her coins, but when I searched my trusty concordance (which has every word from the King James Version of the Bible), the word "coin(s)" was not to be found. It took me a little time researching, but I found the passage in Luke where it referred to a woman as having "ten pieces of silver," which I had always thought of as coins.

This is my writing for today. Aren't you glad it is a happy one? A very good way to begin this Monday.

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