One way God
literally directs our steps is through timing and circumstance. Last night I
walked my dog (yes, only one dog now, we loaned the other to our grandchildren
for a couple weeks and never got her back – we’re in a shared custody deal now)
on our usual route past the back of a small building next door and into the
park in front of the Abbotsford courthouse.
As we
returned, I noticed a card and an I-phone holster lying in the ivy on the
ground. I looked around for more stuff as I suspected a robbery of some sort
had taken place, but found nothing. Today, I walked through that path again as
I took the holster and the CAA card over to the police office which is just a
five minute walk from here. I hardly thought it worthwhile, especially since I
had handled them both so much that fingerprints were unlikely, (obviously I
wasn’t in NCIS mode) but did it anyway.
At the
police station there was a line-up, and it did not move one person in 15
minutes. I decided that it really wasn’t worth my whole afternoon and left. On
the way back home I took a different path through the small field of ivy and
noticed some papers lying on the ivy. I scooped them up and examined them and
found the same name on the papers as was on the CAA card.
I decided
that there had to be a purse around somewhere and within a few seconds a glint
of metal caught my eye and I found a large wallet under the ivy. I opened it
just long enough to see that the driver’s license was in there, and it belonged
to the same woman as the papers and card. I immediately returned to the police
station where the line-up moved very quickly and was able to give them the items
and get out of there in a few minutes.