The Ring

I have to add this - I was inspired by another... Maybe, if enough people read this and pray my ring will return.

I was not happy in high school, I was bored and unsettled. So I dropped out of High School and went to college early. As a graduation present (drop out present) my parents bought me a class ring (my dad designed it). It was a smaller design, I have small hands (for a guy). It was a thin gold band that thicked on the top and leveled off with a flat top. Set in the top in the shape of a rectangle was a narrow band of Bloodstone. In the center was a small diamond.

The gold ring represented family, life, love, me... those things that keep going on. The bloodstone (a dark green stone with swirls of red through it) represented the sin and impurity in life. And the diamond represented the PURITY and STRENGTH of Chirst.

Once I got married, I often wore it in place of my wedding band.

Over the years my ADD has plauged me with missplacing things that are very dear to me, but somehow this ring has (had) always been there. I've missplaced it several times. At one point just after we were married I misplaced the ring for close to a year. After a particularly difficult couple of days I prayed that God would provide me with some assurance that he was in fact still there. A few days later we were visiting my parents house and as I walked through the basement I rolled a pool ball across the table and as it fell into the pocket I heard a clink. Going over to check out the clink I found my ring in the bottom of the pocket. This is not the only time this ring has reappeared by what could only be described as a miracle.

Sadly, about five years ago we were at the fair. I took off my ring and placed it in my pocket so that I could climb the repelling wall. When we reached the car about 45 min later, my ring was no longer in my pocket. On several occasions I have gone out and wandered the fair grounds, hoping that a rain storm might uncover it... and I still sometimes call out and ask if anyone has turned it in... Who knows. I believe that it is within Gods power.

Maybe some day I can replace it, or who knows maybe it will come home.