Prodigal Bible Returns!

smokey the dog · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 468 Location: Michigan

Back in November my wife and I returned from vacation to find that my Bible and a church devotional guide (photo above) had been lost from my luggage. At luggage claim in Detroit we found the front zippered pocket of my bag had failed and the contents were gone. We found a note fom the baggage inspectors that they had been in our bags too. So someplace between El Paso Texas, a change of planes in Houston, and arrival in Detroit my bible had been lost. I filed loss reports with the airport in Houuston and with Northwest airlines in Dertoit, but nothing had turned up after 2 months.

Well, this Sunday Doug (our choir director) hands me my missing Bible and devotional guide! He also handed me a letter which I have posted below.

Dear Glenn,

I’m sure that you are wondering how I ended up with your Bible; I myself wondered about it for quite a while. I traveled to Michigan in early November, when I arrived I placed my bags in my room and joined some co-workers to do some networking. Later that evening when I returned to my room and began unpacking my bags, I felt something in one of my bags that I did not recognize. I pulled it out of my bag, and it was your Bible; I quickly turned more lights on to examine it closer. I checked and double checked, yes it was my bag, it had my name on it and my belongings in it. It troubled me how this Bible could have ended up in my luggage, enough so that I felt compelled to read a couple passages; I truly thought it to be a sign from God. I am a person of Christian faith, but I do need to get my life back to God.

I apologize for taking so long to get your Bible back to you; as near as I can tell, it must have fallen out of your bag and they stuffed it in the first bag that came by. I was on three flights that day; one from DFW to Houston, Houston to Detroit, then Detroit to Traverse City. You must have been on one of those flights.

I remember praying after my Bible was lost that whoever finds it gets some use out of it. Well aparently this man did!
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God's Warrior · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:24 am Post subject:

"The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform."

FYI: That is a great story! The picture of the Bible and devotional guide really added a lot to the enjoyment of this post.