Lost & Found

Yesterday morning we woke up to Gloria, our domestic, worker francticly searching for our dogs that had misteriously disappeared.

Clive recalled having heard the pedestrian gate slam shut at about 21h30 the previous evening, but after checking out the window & not noticing anything out of the ordinary, thought it was Gloria coming home.

Upon closer inspection at the gate, they noticed shoe prints against the gate where someone appeared to have climbed over. Once inside, the pedestrian gate was opened with a screwdriver & the dogs let out.

Fortunately, Wum, being such a big dog would be easy to spot roaming the streets. We found him about an hour later wandering aimlessly a street down from home. We brought him home & he spent the rest of the morning all depressed in the garden & wouldn't even eat.

Trixi, however wasn't going to be that easy. I spent about two hours walking up & down the neighbourhood, sticking posters on lampposts & looking for her. Later in the afternoon, after fetching the boys from school, I decided to do one last trip around the neighbourhood to stick more posters & check if we could spot her. Jesse still insisted that wit a little hope & lots of faith, we would find her.

We'd just stuck a poster at the primary school up the road, when I decided to take the last available poster to the Doggie Parlour at a shopping centre about 4km from our house. I was just about to give up when I felt I should just turn right into the next road. Just as we went around the bend in the road, lo & behold, there she was, our little Trixi, lost & bewildered in the middle of the road.

We brought her home, much to Wum's deligt.


Now they're both home safe & sound & we can testify that God still answers prayers, even if sometimes our prayers seem unimportant or insignificant.