This is the story...
It was winter and I was graduating from high school that summer. I really wanted a grad ring, super bad, and I knew my parents would not buy me one because they were buying my dress (fair enough). I was working Saturdays at the Salvation Army at the time and I counted up the possible hours I could work before I needed to pay for the ring. Rejoice there were enough hours! So i looked through the ring brochure picking out my ring. I wanted silver and my birth stone, something simple and pretty.
Very different from my costume jewelry, which I like big and sparkly!!!! :D
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Some of my favorite rings and necklaces... see the fish and the disco ball ring? |
At the time I lived in an apartment building called Harvest Heights, a somewhat run down establishment that needed a key to get into the building (thankfully lol). Underneath our, own, family home door I found an envelope. It was about a week before my ring would come in the mail. It was addressed to me in a typed note that read:
"To Tamara, Enjoy your grad ring. From your Father in Heaven"
inside the envelope was about 3 dollars more than my ring bill would end up being! To this day I don't know who sent me that money. My parents were just as shocked as I was. :D
So I got my grad ring. I think of the ring as a present from God, He buys me jewelry, I'm his girl. :D
So you can see why loosing it would make me so sad and why finding it causes me to rejoice :D
Have a great new year every one,
Mary and Joseph and travelers in the Christmas play I directed in Switzerland last year. |