Posted on 11/19/2016 10:08:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
Knowing me on a slightly personal level, you can vouch that I wouldn’t have pocketed the ring, right Nick?
? More to the story
Sure. Never.
Sure. Never.
I heard my wife let out a shriek one afternoon, so I looked at her, she was staring at her ring - minus the diamond!
So I asked what she had been doing, and she said she was moving stuff in the freezer...
It took me a LONG TIME, and a LOT OF INSTRUCTION to my wife for her to carefully handle everything I took out of the freezer... eventually, I had it all out and mostly melted when I finally saw the diamond. Sitting on the bottom of the freezer surrounded by ice chunks.
She had it reset in a more robust setting and never lost it again.
She passed a few years after that, and I kinda went downhill from there, but am slowly getting over it.
True story.
You gave your lovely wife a tremendous gift by finding her diamond...something that represented someone unbelievably precious to her.
I’m so sorry for your loss, FRiend.
The angels are even more ecstatic when one of God’s chosen ones is recovered from the miry clay in regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
OK, off topic.
But WTH are pizza brownies?
I am so sorry for your loss.
Finally, after the day was nearly done, we remembered that I had received an award at the Marine Base that day so we drove there and searched the parking lot. After an hour's searching and the light was almost gone, I spotted a gleam on the pavement and it was her ring! It had only been run over once or so and easily fixed.
Makes that ring that much more precious.
Nice story!
That was my question too.
I’m glad you found it.
Me too! It sure makes it that much more romantic that we struggled so hard and we found it. Makes Jesus’ parable about the Lost Sheep that much more poignant.
I thought of Jesus’ parables myself.
When we bought my engagement ring, we discussed having 4 prongs or 6 with the jeweler.
He explained the difference and how with four prongs the diamond showed up better but how if one of the prongs broke, the diamond could slide out.
I figured that the slight difference in appearance that the six prongs made wasn’t going to be noticeable enough to warrant the risk of losing the stone if one of the prongs broke.
A similar thing happened to me. One day I was in a hurry and moving laundry from the washer into the dryer when I heard “ping, ping!” It was the diamond from my engagement ring!
I frantically looked everywhere for it, in the machine, in each piece of clothing that I was moving. I actually took apart the washing machine and put it back together after determining the diamond was not there. That took me almost a whole day to accomplish. It was sad time. I went without my engagement ring.
Then one day almost a year later, I got into a cleaning frenzy in the laundry room, and realized that somehow I had not looked around the dryer. I found a yardstick, and slid it back and forth underneath the dryer. Within a few seconds, the diamond surrounded by dryer dust bunnies rolled out! I was quite ecstatic and said a thank you prayer for it’s recovery. Yes, we got a sturdier mounting after that.
I’m sorry to hear about your wife, but your story is a neat one.
Here’s another:
A friend picked me up to go to lunch after her job of cleaning the stables, etc.
At the red light, she noticed that her diamond was gone.
So, we prayed then and there, “God, you know where it went. Please show it to her, in Jesus’ name, Amen.”
I gave her a few ideas about finding it at home using a flashlight at night.
She called me the following week - she had found it!
It was at the bottom of the horse water trough!
Lost one of the stones out of my expensive Mother’s ring, I was really upset, had one of those life time replacement policies, they replaced it, a week later same stone was gone, I ended up with a new replaced ring. Mine go in a glass on the bedroom dresser when I need to use bare hands and that glass sits in one place all the time. More women need to make that a practice. Never take your rings off in the bathroom or kitchen. Put them in a glass on the bedroom dresser.
Then there is my friend Lynn, she had to have her rings cut off that were well beyond $5K before surgery as she’d gained so much weight and had swollen hands. Not a happy camper, should have had them enlarged before it became necessary to have them cut off.
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