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Hand of God in the return of wallets

Date: October 2011
Victim: Paula Cavu

Divine hand in the theft of my two wallets in Savusavu town

I arrived early Saturday morning by ferry from the capital Suva. My room at the motel was not ready so I was given another room to wait in. I hung my shirt to dry as it was damp from perspiration. I took my two wallets out and left them on the table so that my quick drying trousers would also dry. As a habit one of my wallets had Fijian currency and the other had my Australian currency.

After an hour or so the cleaner had my room ready and I began to transfer my luggage over. This would only take a couple of minutes as my room was on the same level and only a couple of doors down the corridor.

The transfer involved a couple of trips and then I began unpacking. I soon found that my two wallets were missing. My initial calm soon turned panicky when I couldn’t find them. After a comprehensive search I realized that someone had taken them during the transfer. I reported the incident to the motel staff before making my way to the police station for a formal report. After that I contacted my wife in Australia to cancel our credit cards and get new ones.

Family and friends prayed for my situation and my wife took the opportunity to get confirmation that our building project in Savusavu had divine blessing. She prayed that if my two wallets were returned intact, then it would be a sign to her that our project in the town had divine blessing – say no more, her heart was not entirely in the project from the beginning! For me the opportunity was in my Christian witness of a calm and forgiving disposition and good character to the motel owners, staff and people of the small town. I have stayed at this motel many times before, and the owner and manager was a friend.

The police did their job and I calmly continued attending to the two or so weeks work that I came to do - personal business and ministry in a couple of churches. As usual I enjoyed a few games of golf, social activities and dinners with friends of this aptly named, Hidden Paradise.

My last day was a Sunday. I had to travel for about an hour to a town on the other side of the island with the pastor of the church that I was to minister in and some church members. We had a wonderful meeting and three folks committed their lives to the Lord.

After church we had lunch at a member’s house and then we returned to Savusavu. I only had an hour or so to pack my things and make my way to the ferry that was returning to Suva. At the end of my packing I opened a drawer that I did not use just to make sure that I did not have anything in it and there they were – my two wallets! I said to myself: “He (the thief) brought them back!” I checked and they had everything intact. I have always put my wallets in my suitcase that can be locked. These drawers cannot be locked.

Something arguably more significant actually happened. About three or four years ago I took the mayor of the town to look at the council drainage running beside the retaining wall of my rental property. Water from the drain was digging under the wall making it potentially unstable. The mayor said that he would do something about it but nothing happened.

Now the hole was so much bigger and deeper and the threat to my retaining wall much greater. I went to see the town clerk and he happened to be the co-owner of the motel I was staying at. He was obviously embarrassed about the theft at his motel and moved to make compensations by immediately ordering council staff to repair the drain. The council provided all materials and labour. The builder in town that built the retaining wall for me also brought his workers to fix the problem.

On the day determined for repair, we had too many workers so there was agreement for council to provide all materials and my builder to provide labour. The job was done promptly without any cost to me. Most likely, without the theft the crevice in drain would not have been repaired and the threat to my retaining wall would have lingered on in the doldrums of ‘Fiji time’.

As the sun lazily and colourfully set over the tropical horizon and the ferry floated away from the wharf, passengers from the decks waived to families, friends and acquaintances on the wharf. The policeman that came to interview me stretched out his hands and thumbs towards me in victory and I stretched my hands and thumbs to heaven in response.

Well, I got my wallets back intact, the crevice in the drain that threatened my retaining wall was repaired and my wife got her sign. The Lord sure moves in mysterious and quite efficient ways with those who love His reality and walk with Him accordingly.

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(C) 2012 Daystar Ministry, Brisbane Australia
Author: Pastor Paula M. Cavu (paulamcavu@yahoo.com.au)
Maintained by: Dr Gavin Porter PhD
(gavinporter@anfic.com.au)
Last Updated: 2 February 2012
Unless otherwise stated, all scriptures have been quoted from the Old King James Version of the Bible.