鼓棒

我一月底從英國回來的那一天晚上就發現我鼓棒的袋子不見了而且一定是我去英國的前一天在台北弄丟因為我那一天帶去教課了！
那時候沒時間找因為各一天早上就去韓國表演（還好有兩雙鼓棒不方袋子裡）！
二月回台灣就過年了，過年後我已經沒有希望，但是還是禱告請神幫我找到（因為裡面的鼓棒很多，不便宜，而且因為用了很久我對那個袋子很有感覺囧）。

我問了板橋福因堂，捷運，我家附近的一家咖啡店，都沒有。我差一點決定是在捷運上弄丟然後因為已經太久了我就方棄。可是今天再去板橋教鼓我還是禱告了，帶我最後一小塊希望去我弄丟那一天吃飯的鬍鬚張問一個店員。過了兩分鐘他回到我的桌子一手在拿我鼓棒袋，我嚇一跳，他們留者快兩個月！好神奇！

所以今天我非常開心得帶鼓棒去表演（剛好下午就有）。謝謝耶穌還關心到我不鐘要的小事情，我不知道為什麼我更重要的事情你好象沒回答可是今天提行我不關多大多小，你關心到我們關心的事因為你愛我們沒個人。

Well, I suppose I should tell the story in English too. Basically I lost my drum stick bag in January the day before going back to England and I only found out when I got back to Taiwan and was packing (that same night) to go to Korea. No sticks to take for the concerts and no time to go looking around Taipei to see where I might have lost them. Having taken that stick bag to teach the day before I left for UK I knew which places it could have been left (thinking that on the MRT was most likely) so getting back from Korea I began to search the places it could be, all to no avail.

It was kind of embarrassing going to places and asking if they's seen a red stick bag that I'd lost a month ago orz...
So after time I pretty much gave up hope. But then I remembered some experiences and as I do about most things in my life I prayed, a kind of prayer that sounded more like a nagging friend "God I'd really like to get that bag back, can't you help out somehow?" "I know I was careless to lose it but the timing was unlucky too, can't you give me the benefit of the doubt and find it for me?"

Anyway, finally today I was teaching drums in the same place and decided (despite almost 2 months having passed by now and my almost certain feeling that I'd lost the bag on the MRT) I decided to go to the one place I hadn't asked that it could be in. I had lunch in the 'Formosa Chang' restaurant and plucked up courage and face to ask one of the staff if they'd found a red stick back (a long time ago). About two minutes later he came back holding it and handed it over to me with a smile....

I couldn't quite believe it, I felt like it came with a "haha, didn't believe I could do that did you" reply to my prayer and I took it with me to the concert we were playing in the afternoon (which was extremely useful as you might imagine).

So then I'm left with the question of if my stick bag can come back after almost 2 months in the funniest way (I really don't know why a place like Formosa Chang would keep it there for so long just in case) then why doesn't God seem to answer my prayers about important things in the same cool way??

Impossible to know.... but today I was at least reminded that God cares about the things we care about because He genuinely loves us like children. So now when I practice drums I can remember that even more :).

(And for anyone who thinks it's just a lucky coincidence then maybe I should write about my hat story next time orz...)