God's Wonderful Angel

I just want to thank the Lord for an experience from last evening. We had had a great day at the Round Table and I was coming home from the meeting with Bijoy on his scooter. We stopped at an ATM to do some business, as I do each day while on these trips, and then continued on home.

When we arrived back at our guest house he dropped me off and I joined the others on our team for a time of reflection on the events of the day. It was around 10:00 p.m. when we began and we went to around 11:15 p.m. It has been very good to interact with one another. We are learning many things and greatly appreciating our new friends.

I went to my room and changed clothes and sat down to do some work. It was close to midnight when I opened my back pack to pull out a small green bag that I usually carry with me. It wasn't there! I quickly thought back and realized I must have left it at the ATM.

My Indian friends were asleep as were most of the others on our team. I made my way downstairs to awaken the men who stay at this guest house through the night, explained my situation, and before long we were on a motorcycle to return to the ATM. This was now two hours since I was last here.

When we pulled up I could see that my bag was not there. My passport and visa, my camera, a good amount of cash, and several other things were all in this bag. We went into the ATM and looked around but to no avail.

As we opened the door to step out a man approached me. He asked me if I was looking for something and I replied yes and described the bag. He called to another man and said bring it here. There in the hands of this man was my green bag. The man explained that he had entered the ATM after me and found my bag. He had waited for two hours for me to return. I am not aware that he had seen me in person, but he new the owner of the bag would return.

He told me to check to see if everything was still in the bag. I could see that it was and did not check further, except to open my money carrier to be able to give this man a finders fee. It was totally my choice. he did not ask for anything in order to return it to me. I choose to give him a gift of thanks.

In the midst of all that happened at midnight I failed to ask him his name. All I know is that God had placed a guardian angel at the ATM to care for my belongings during this most unexpected occurrence. I am so grateful for the Lord's provision.

My Indian friend was very surprised. He said, I have never seen anything like this happen before! Praise God with me for his watch care over us.

Ken