Borrowing St. Anthony

Yesterday morning, when I was working as receptionist, I got a couple of phone calls for Sr. Elaine within a fairly short time period, both from our evening receptionist, Carla.

I think I kind of wondered what was up, but “minded my own business.”

This evening, after finishing our semi-monthly community spiritual discussion, Sr. Elaine filled us in on the humorous details:

Carla had called, saying that her good friend was trying to find her keys, which she had lost.  She had recently been traveling.  She told Carla that she would have to have St. Anthony help her find the keys.  Or, she might try looking up some new saints to help since the old ones were pretty busy already.

Carla had advised her not to bother with St. Anthony since was too busy helping Sr. Elaine find missing objects.  Sr. Elaine told Carla that this friend could borrow St. Anthony for a while (to help find her keys).

Shortly thereafter, Carla called back to tell Sr. Elaine that she could have St. Anthony back now; her friend had found her keys right away after asking his intercession.  She thanked Sr. Elaine for letting her borrow him.

And I thank Sr. Elaine for letting me ‘borrow’ this delightful little story!