Yesterday’s Everyday Answer to Prayer sets up today’s everyday miracle. When I left the animal shelter and picked June up at her Music Teachers’ Conference, I texted: “Benji would like to meet you if you’re up for it.” June came to the car immediately and off we went.

After the visit, we went back to the hotel for a short rest before a 5p session at the conference. As we were leaving the hotel, June said, “I don’t have my portfolio and legal pad.” She had been using a distinctive Northwestern University legal pad holder and had left it in the room. “Do you want me to go back and get it?” “No, we’ll be late.”

Now, fast-forward to between dinner and a concert. We’re back in the room looking for the legal pad without success. June said, “I must have left it at the conference site in my excitement to see Benji.” So when we went to the concert, we looked in all the obvious places for the legal pad, again without success.

After the concert, preparing for bed, we combed the room again. No legal pad, so she was making plans for how she might track it down Saturday morning…

At 6a Saturday morning, in bed, June asks me, “Where did you find my legal pad?” I said, “What are you talking about?” She said, “Look. There’s the legal pad at the foot of the bed.”

How can that be? The bedspread was white. The legal pad’s holder was navy blue. If it had been there when we went to bed, we would have seen it. If I had found it in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t have put it there!

A quick visit from an angel is the only logical explanation.

Crazy? Rod Dreher has just come out with a new book Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. I have it, but it just came out so I haven’t read it yet. Brad East, in his Christianity Today book review Make Christianity Spooky Again writes:

[We need to] bite the bullet and proclaim, fingers uncrossed, that God works signs and wonders in the world today, just as he did in the times and stories of Holy Scripture. In this view, angels intervene in mortal affairs; demons assault and possess unsuspecting sinners; terminal illnesses are healed by divine miracle; young men see visions; and old men dream dreams (Acts 2:17). None of these things ever ceased. Christians in the West merely lost the desire or ability to see them. – Brad East, emphasis mine

“Angles intervene in mortal affairs…” – I’ve written about this before.

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? (Hebrews 1.14, NIV)