I thought this morning of a woman I knew (minimally…I was
the secretary to her attorney) many years ago in California .
She was of Hungarian birth, was very rich, and she loved to talk of her
youth when she fled Hungary
just as the Nazi army was moving in. She had a hair-raising story to tell.
Her family was very wealthy, had royal blood according to
her, and I had no reason to doubt her. But almost (which is the operative word
here) all they had, had already been confiscated, and it was looking dire
for their survival. She and her parents barely escaped in the dead of the
night, with all they owned on their backs.
The “almost” included several pieces of very fine jewelry
which she and her mother pinned and sewed to the underwear they were
wearing.
When they got to America ,
they converted the jewelry to cash, settled in, and, long story short, through
lousy investments, lost everything. By now, her parents had passed on, she was
alone without a penny to bless herself with, and she prayed that God would come
to her aid.
She came across the petticoat that her mother had worn out of
Europe, was wadding it up to throw it away and felt a lumpy something…she shook
the petticoat out, and there, pinned on the underside, was an emerald and
diamond broach they had missed. She had her nest egg. (And may I say, I
never saw her but that she had that broach pinned to her shoulder…in the
morning, at noon , or in the
evening).
Most interesting, she swore then and every time she told the
story that she had never laid eyes on that broach before the day she “found”
it, and she knew well all the pieces that they had since there were only a half
dozen or so pieces.
I love this story, and I love it not for the mystery of
the broach which I tend to believe was her way of making a good story better
(and I’d do the same!). I love it for the fact that she always had
enough…she just did not know it, and until she asked for God’s help, could not
see it.
God’s job is to provide…our job is to rely on that.
Thank You.
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