Grocery Market Miracles

When I was in high school, I worked at a local grocery store. One day while I was cashiering, I noticed the guy bagging the groceries at my register stopped working. His eyes were fixated on a tiny crystal rock which was on the counter area where the rung up groceries were pushed down to be bagged. Very carefully using two fingers, the boy gently picked us this very small crystal. He then asked the customer, "Ma'am, is this your diamond?" (I nearly started laughing. I thought, "Yeah, right! That wasn't a diamond. It probably was a kosher salt granule.")

Upon hearing these words and seeing the tiny stone in the bagger's hand, the woman exclaimed, "My diamond!!! Where did you find it!? Several days ago, I noticed the diamond in my wedding ring fell out. I looked everywhere for it but was not able to find it. Oh, my diamond!" The bagger explained he saw it on the end of the checkout counter. The woman wanted to pay the bagger for his find, but the guy humbly refused. He said he was just glad he saw the diamond and was able to give it back to her.

While growing up, my brother also worked at the same grocery store. One day while he was working at the store crushing boxes and throwing them into the dumpster, his gold necklace broke. He gratefully scooped up the gold necklace, but he panicked because he could find the gold cross pendant which hung from the necklace. The necklace meant a lot to my brother because he had picked it out with my grandmother for his church confirmation gift. He searched and searched in the dumpster and all around. Finally, without finding the pendant, he tearfully gave up the search.

Several days later, I was sitting in our home living room. I suddenly noticed a small half inch golden fleck on our golden brown carpeting. I got up from the recliner to walk over and examine it. "Oh my!" I exclaimed when I realized it was my brother's cross pendant from his necklace. I immediately found my brother and with much joy and delight gave him the golden cross pendant.

I smile when I think about these grocery store miracles. Both items were found several days after they were lost. The diamond was lost at home and discovered at the grocery store while the necklace pendant was lost at the grocery store and found at home. The lost diamond reminds me of Jesus' parable of the lost coin: "What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I found the piece which I had lost.' Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents" (Luke 15:8-10). The lost cross pendant reminds me of Jesus' death and resurrection. After Jesus died on the cross, He was buried. After three days of being hidden away in the grave, He reappeared to those who loved Him. I pray heaven has been able to rejoice when you repent of your sins; I pray you have trusted Jesus to be your Lord and Savior.