Finding lost items

I heard an inspiring testimony last night from a woman who explained how she found lost items.

She reasoned that divine Mind knows all. We live in a universe of Mind, and the whereabouts of every item in Mind is known by the Mind that beholds it.

She also pointed out that we all reflect the knowledge of the one Mind, so it's natural for us to look wherever a needed item is located.

She went on to explain that when she can't find something she needs, she says, "Look where it is!"

I loved it.

"Look where it is!"

People spend a lot of time looking where things aren't. Why not save wasted effort and simply "Look where it is!"

She shared how she had discovered the diamond stone in her ring gone.

So, she prayed, "Look where it is." And an inner voice told her to look in a file box of papers. She unloaded the papers, and heard a rattle-rattle. There was the stone.

No lost little ones

Monica from Atlanta sent in the below experience her family had on the 4th of July. It reminds me to never give up when searching for solutions, because God always has an answer—even very unique ones at times!


We were preparing to go see fireworks.

My daughter had foolishly put her three guinea pigs out into the front yard to graze without the enclosure. We found her frantically searching for Peanut, the baby piggy. The entire family spent a good hour scouring the yard and listening to her squeak, but to no avail. I knew she needed to be found to survive, but it seemed impossible to find her!

We had looked everywhere.

I saw myself in Peanut's helpless situation and wondered how God could possibly bring about a solution, even as I clung to the thought of God's perfect creation, never out of his care. I knew my husband, son and daughters were all praying for a miracle.

Then an odd thought came to me to ask Strider, our German shepherd, for help. He had always been so tender with the piggies, guarding them and even barring his teeth at our other dogs when they got too near and rambunctious around them.

So I got out Peanut's hutch and called Strider. He took in the scent deeply, and I said "Find Peanut!"

Strider's nose went to the ground. In a few minutes I saw him pawing and sniffing in the low prickly brush where we had previously searched but found nothing. We all gathered to look, and hidden deep inside the prickles and dirt and dead leaves was Peanut! We never would have found her without Strider's help. How grateful we were, and amazed even more!

Strider acted like it was no big deal and looked puzzled at what all the fuss was about. It sure gave me hope, that there is a human solution in God's design, even when it seems impossible to mortal view.

Strider and Peanut

Nothing lost in Mind

A friend was swimming in a very large pool when she realized she had lost a contact lens from one of her eyes.

“Oh, no! How will I ever find it?” surged doubt and fear.

Putting her Christian Science into practice, she remembered that all is Mind and Mind’s idea. Nothing is ever lost in Mind, she affirmed, because Mind knows the location of every one of its ideas, whether it is called a memory, a song, a bit of information or a contact lens.

She found peace in accepting that divine Mind knew exactly where her contact lens was. She reflected this Mind, and as Mind’s reflection it was natural for her to know where the lens was too.

Putting all doubt and fear aside, and trusting the one Mind’s direction, she looked for her lens. Ten minutes later she found it at the bottom of the pool.

Such a discovery sounds incredible to the human mind, but it's not hard to believe for the divine.

In Mind, there is no space, no distance, no past, no future...only the now. And what is true in the spiritual now is always true.

As we discard a limited material view of the universe and adopt the all-knowing, all comprehending, all-seeing Mind as our model, what seemed absent to human sense is suddenly discovered in the spiritual.

Nothing is ever lost in Mind.