A Great Return

Diana Nash
Reprinted from the Oct. 31, 2005, issue of the CS Sentinel

I was upset when my favorite new CD went missing, so I prayed to know that nothing could ever be lost with God-and I found proof of Love’s care…

One day after school (I attend boarding school), I went to my CD case to listen to a new CD I had just bought. To my surprise, it was missing. I was pretty sure that someone had stolen it. That really disturbed me because the CD was brand new and I loved listening to the music on it.

When I called my parents, I mentioned the incident to them. They totally turned my thought around to what was true-that I could not lose or misplace something I’d worked hard for, because God loved me and He wouldn’t let that happen.

I deserved to have this CD because I had put my love into it by babysitting months before, and I’d saved up my money to buy it. The CD was meant to come back to me. I knew that God’s children, which included the girls on my floor, don’t steal and aren’t dishonest. But at the time, it was a struggle to believe this.

So, I decided I would listen to God every morning for what to do next. The idea came to me to post a few notices up in the girls’ dormitory, and mention the CD was missing. Instead of blaming an individual or making the girls in the dorm feel bad, I went to Science and Health for some inspiration.

Honesty is a spiritual quality from God.

One of the statements that stuck out to me was “Honesty is spiritual power.” This helped me see that honesty is a spiritual quality-one of those qualities from God. Honesty shines through each one of us because we are His expression. Nothing can ever change that.

And if God created us to be honest and completely spiritual, then how could someone be dishonest, or less than perfect? They couldn’t. These thoughts helped me a lot as I was praying.

A few weeks passed, and it seemed to me as if the CD would never come back to me. But I didn’t give up and stop praying. And to my complete amazement, the CD did come back.

I had proof of God’s constant love.

It was Mother’s Day, and I was in my room on the phone speaking to my younger brother. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a CD-that lost CD-glistening in the sunlight. It had suddenly reappeared. This proof of God’s constant love made me smile.

That day had been difficult for me, since I was far away from my mom on Mother’s Day, and my dad’s birthday was the following day. But finding this CD transformed my day to one of complete happiness.

I learned through this that nothing other than God’s love can touch me or anyone else. Whether someone had returned the CD, or I had just found it, it proved to me that nothing can ever be lost with God.

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