We faced another interesting dilemma in the
saga of living with an elderly parent.
Mom lost her only remaining hearing aid.
One of them stopped working a while back, but she was doing fine with
just the one, so we have postponed getting it fixed. That would mean taking her on a trip up into
Texas since her doctor is in Houston. But
then the last one came up missing. It is
impossible to tell when or where exactly she might have lost it, since her
communication skills have diminished quite a bit. Our only recourse is to do what we did
yesterday – have a scavenger hunt. Let
me say up front that we weren’t successful.
Well, not in that we did not find the hearing aid. Some good did come out of the whole search
and rescue operation, though. The rugs
got vacuumed. That’ll help Chris prepare
for our Christmas Party tomorrow night. I
was most excited about the finds hidden deep inside the hungry crevices of the
couch. One of the boys has borrowed our
wet/dry vac, so I decided to dig in and do it the old fashioned way.
I rolled up my proverbial sleeves and bravely
crammed my arm blindly into the abyss, heedless of any hidden dangers. My first foray provided pretty much what I expected,
some stale Cheetos and a raisin. At
least it proved that whatever might be trapped down there could indeed be
brought to the surface. My arm disappeared
to the elbow for long moments each time, and each time it brought back
something. A tiny Lego man’s head. A Lego spear.
A Lego quiver of arrows. An
entire Lego man. Are you sensing a
pattern here? Obviously I had stumbled
upon the Legendary Lego Land of the Lost.
Being the careful archaeologist that I am, I determined to fully
excavate this find and bring to light its true story. More Cheetos.
Piles and piles of lint. Globs of
… what was that stuff? Sadly, I was operating
without the benefits of modern technology, so some potentially exciting finds
had to remain a mystery. Then came … a
quarter. Treasure. I had read about such finds, but rarely have I
personally experienced one. Then a
dime. And a penny. Another penny. Thirty-seven cents in all. What a find.
Why, that could buy … a tenth of a gallon of gas. OK, so not that much, but every little bit
helps, I guess. The find of the day,
though, came when I uncovered what appeared to be a wristwatch. Yes, after carefully removing all the debris,
there it was. An actual wrist
watch. But not just any old
wristwatch. No, indeed. For this watch was inscribed within. It wasn’t the writing that caught my eye so
much as the image. I carefully examined
it, and to my surprise, there on the face of the watch was a picture of … could
that be … Lego C3PO? And the words …
Lego (I could have guessed that). And
sure enough … Star Wars. What a
find. After consulting with my esteemed
colleague (Chris), I decided that there was only one person on the planet who
could fully appreciate the gravity of this particular find … Professor Zakary
of the San Antonio Institute of Lego Culture and Creativity. I have heard he has moved on to a new area of
expertise – Hobbitus Extremitus – but perhaps he will still be interested
enough to join me in studying this remarkable find. Now, how shall I go about contacting him …?
Psalms 46:10 says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Father, we could sure use some help uncovering
the hiding place of that hearing aid.
Amen.
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