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Look for the Silver Lining

The prayers of a woman with seller’s remorse are answered at an estate sale.

A woman's regret over selling her silver is eased by a heavenly intervention.
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“I sold my silver this weekend,” my daughter, Sharon, told me over the phone one day. “I never use it, so I figured why not get some extra money?”

What a good idea, I thought when I hung up. I’d had my own flatware collection since I was married. Mine was sterling silver, and I barely used it. Who couldn’t use some extra cash these days….

“I didn’t get as much as I wanted for it,” I told Sharon after I sold it. “But it’s better than nothing.”

“Oh, Mother!” she said. “I sold only a few silver-plated serving pieces, not my sterling! What were you thinking?”

I got a knot in my stomach. My assumption had been wrong. Now my sterling was lost forever.

A few days later I stopped at an estate sale. I lifted the lid of a small wooden chest and found it full of sterling silver flatware, in the exact pattern I got at my wedding 55 years ago. I made an offer and took it home.

Instead of my original service for 6, I now have service for 12, and the knowledge that it was meant just for me.

 

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