Tender Mercy

My house was robbed on December 8th and I lost many things including my laptop. It had all of my music files and pictures from the last 3 years. I have all my music on my iPod that was with me the day of the robbery, so I still have that. Luckily I made a backup of all my photos in April, but that still meant I was missing all my pictures (and I take a lot of pictures) since I've moved to Utah. Thank goodness for facebook. I have most of my photos still, but there was one event that I didn't post of facebook that I lost all the pictures for...my family reunion in Yellowstone in July. I admit that I was saddened by this news. Other family members took pictures, so I felt I would be ok. I had some really funny pictures though...blackmail pictures actually of my nephews that I couldn't wait to show to their girlfriends in 10 years. I was sad I lost those. I had resigned to my fate, when I was on my work computer and discovered a hidden picture file...of all of my Yellowstone pictures. Tears of gratitude immediately started flowing and I recognized a tender mercy on this Sabbath evening. I'm not sure my nephews will share my gratitude though. :-)