Lost Item

[Mr.Cat]

Since I was in the seventh grade and I came from Staunch Atheism, my mother gave me a gift, which my family has never been much on gift giving. But this one made me feel ‘extra’ special; it was a silver brown scapular medal from my mother, apparently was given by either her mother or grandmother. It was simple but quite beautiful.

The clasp onto the chain had been malfunctioning periodically for the last two to three years, I would fix it and it would hold it’s self for a long while. Normally if it fell off me I noticed or I would soon notice that it was missing, but since I had been almost perpetually wearing it since the seventh grade, I don’t notice that its there, as much as I notice when its NOT there.

So I was walking in the campus’s student store and I noticed that my chain was slacking, as if the medal was gone. I checked my undershirt and pants, since it sometimes would get caught on undergarments. It wasn’t there. I thought about it and I decided that it may have been off since I showered, since it normally falls off then.

I had to study for an exam and I thought I would return later to the campus to look. I’m not sure why I didn’t decide to just look then, but I didn’t, I was rather tired at the time. I finished classes and I sort of forgot about it, I went home and I searched around the house, and I couldn’t find it. I then went back with one of my friends and we searched around the areas I walked and checked with the “Lost & Found” for the campus’s science department, library, student store, and police department.

The hypothesis that I have so far is that someone or perhaps an animal found this silver brown scapular medal, taking it for their own uses. It’s possible I suppose that it’s still somewhere in the house, in my car, or even on the campus. Even possible that some good person has it but they haven’t turned it in yet. But the chances are in my opinion that, I won’t be seeing this medal anytime again soon, loosing a very special cherished gift and important keepsake of my life.

I’m grateful for the happy memories and the comfort of faith it brought to me, also how special it made me feel knowing it was such a special gift. My family really isn’t big on gifts, in fact I rarely receive gifts even for my birthdays. Perhaps it was time for me to depart with such a wonderful bit of my life, an indicator of a new chapter of sorts. But if I am [b][u]to make a petition[/u][/b] I would like ([b]1[/b]) for my silver brown scapular medal to be returned to me promptly and in good condition, ([b]2[/b]) for consolation in the lost of this gift, and ([b]3[/b]) that while I may not still wear it now that I may still receive such “spiritual” benefits attached to it.


I ask anyone of good intention who is comfortable and willing to pray, even just a moment of just offering the desire to pray for such good intentions, to please do so. Likewise, I thank everyone who read this post and moreover anyone who prayed for its prompt return to me.