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Where do my missing socks disappear to? Why do I have all these singles that are missing their mates? Are some things beyond prayer?<\/p>\n

This truly seems like one of life’s existential mysteries<\/a>. Socks disappear. I don\u2019t know where they go. Perhaps if we had a washer and dryer in our apartment, the missing socks wouldn\u2019t get out of the house. But everybody loses socks, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

The other day I took all the orphan socks out of my drawer and took a picture of them. Maybe I\u2019d post it in our laundry room with a heartfelt plea: \u201cHelp! Lost Socks! All information leading to the discovery of their siblings will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. Please contact\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

My wife suggests I check the washers and dryers more carefully before I remove the laundry. \u201cSometimes a sock will get lodged on the edge of the door, and you won\u2019t even see it,\u201d she says. As for her socks\u2026well, she washes them herself, never mixing them with my motley crew.<\/p>\n

There is one pair of socks I especially treasure, and I wear them this time of year because they\u2019re wooly and warm and make me think of Jesus. That\u2019s because they have the Sea of Galilee<\/a> on the bottom. My colleague Edward Grinnan bought them for me when he went to Israel a couple years ago. \u201cIs it because I walk on water?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

No answer. But it made me wonder, \u201cWhat would Jesus think about a prayer for a missing sock?\u201d<\/p>\n

The other day I came back from the laundry room with clean laundry, and I matched up all my socks, only to discover one missing. Another one! Another orphan to add to the drawer. Maybe this was my prayer moment: \u201cJesus, help me find that sock!\u201d<\/p>\n

I searched through the pile of laundry, thinking it might have hidden itself in the crease of a towel or the corner of a fitted sheep. Alas, no sock. No sock anywhere. And it was one of my favorites. What now, Jesus?<\/em><\/p>\n

I could imagine what my wife would say: Go back to the laundry room and see if the missing pair was stuck in the washer. Maybe this mystery wasn\u2019t existential at all but only a situation of human error.<\/p>\n

I dashed downstairs to the laundry and hurried over to the washer I had used. One of my neighbors had loaded it up, his dirty clothes now tumbling in the porthole of a window.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me, sir,\u201d I said. \u201cI think I was the last one who washed my clothes<\/a> in that washer, and I lost a sock. When you take your clothes out, could you see if there\u2019s an extra sock. It\u2019s navy blue.\u201d We exchanged phone numbers, and that was that.<\/p>\n

Less than a half hour had gone by when I got a text message: \u201cI\u2019ve found your sock. I put it on the bulletin board. \u201cOh, joy, oh, rapture, my orphan sock would be reunited with its brother!<\/p>\n

It made me think of that old expression \u201cputting shoe leather to prayer.\u201d Not just praying about something but acting too. Isn\u2019t that what I\u2019d done? Not making myself a victim of the mysterious sock-swallowing vacuum in the universe, but stepping forward and seeking help<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for rescuing my sock,\u201d I said to my neighbor down in the laundry room. I picked the sock off the bulletin board and waved it in the air. \u201cThis is really like putting socks on a prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHuh?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s a little hard to explain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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