1998 we got married. I put our wedding videos in our media cabinet.
2008 we moved into our first house. The media cabinet moved with us.
2012 we replaced the media cabinet with new furniture. The wedding videos moved to the storage closet. I think.
2013 we moved to the Cottonwood house. The wedding tapes went to the basement.
I think.
2015 I wanted to watch the videos. I couldn’t find them in the basement. Anywhere. I searched the whole house. The wedding videos were gone.
2020 we moved to the Grand house and downsized. Going from 3000 sq. ft. to 1200 sq. ft. forced me to go through every single box, bag, item and purge most of it. When we got to the basement, I told everyone to look for the video tapes. As we moved everything out of the basement and got to the last cabinet to empty, I realized they really were gone. I had personally gone through every single cabinet, storage bin, shelf and box myself. The basement was now empty and no video tapes. That was such a sad realization and I have mourned their loss for over a year now.
3 days ago I saw a headline in the news: “Husband surprises wife with lost wedding video 14 years later.” I told God, “How fun would that be if that could happen to me?!”
Yesterday I got this text from Cheri:
“Oh and also I picked up some mail that was delivered at the old house and [the new owners] had a bag of your old video tapes and one of them was of your wedding. she thought you would probably want them :-)”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t ask God for the miracle. He just loves me enough to do this for me!