The class ring, missing pieces and the connection!

So I am questioning others do you wear your classs ring? Do you still have your class ring?
I don't wear mine anymore it sits in a jewlery box, filled with other jewlery I don't wear as well. But yet I keep them, why, it must be because of the connection.

I recall getting my class ring in the fall of 1984! the goal was meet and I got the prize because every one wants a class ring. My uncle said "get her the best and so the ring was top of the line" The blue stone reflective of my birth month the 4 tiny diamonds , set into the year 1985. Yes that is perfect, but as the years past I lost the desire to wear it so proudly. So, hence it sits in a box. I recall when I was planning my 15 year class reunion I wore it like I was in school again, then put it away. It is most amazing how school can bring some thoughts of being a child out in you, and you giggle over the same things you did in school.

Last Friday I went to the local resturant and enjoyed a meal then sat with a friend from high school, and laughed so hard. Just alot of fun! Yet I noticed she did not have her class ring on either. Did not asked why, but I do want to know why we leave some things behind. It is a connection to us. Material items should not really matter in this life, but we all have them. For some it is your cars, radios,tv, or clothes maybe even the closet room of shoes. Where is the connection to you in these items and what does it really say about you. What does it say about your relationship with the world? Your relationship with Christ?

Simply if you have aboundantly give aboundant, if you have a penny give a penny.

Relatively simple. Yet I recall an interview with 2 famous basketball players, A question was posed to both. What do you think about people whom beg for money. One responded "oh that dives me crazy they just neeed to get a job" while the other said "I give them money, that is what I feel the need to do and I have enough" best friends whom share a connection, but different views. Powerful!! the one whom said they need to get a job had more rings from championships than he could fit on one hand, as did his friend

This past week my elderly father in law called and related someone from my husband's high school was looking for him. My initial thought was oh my gosh he has a child, but then I thought someone found his class ring. The intensity grew as it escalted so did my mind, did he have more than one child was it 2? My husband is typically a man of few words, but he chatted away while I waited on the call to end.

Then finally the connections came. Almost 30 years ago a ring was purchased after hard work
and my husband got his class ring. he wore it proudly, until it went missing, was it lost or stolen never real clear, until the call.

A beautiful smile came across my husband's face and he said"they have my class ring. He went to retrieve it the next morning and called me so excited he chatterred away,it must have been one really cool moment in his life to get something he worked for back.



He is one whom will never take it off once it goes back on. While I never wear mine, yet I also never wear my wedding ring. The bible gives us some fascinating details in depicted examples of how to wear jewerly. Now I don't have a nose ring but, just say I did(my family would think I have lost my mind or joined some weird midlife crisis womens group) and I said it is for me, some would say oh! But what if i said I wear it like refenced to in Genesis 24;47,53,or Proverbs 11,I am adorned for the one I love. My husband would concur I have lost my mind.



When you put away gold/ silver /stones, take them out or buy them only with the thought that I will wear this with the thought of "My outward beauty is matched by my inward beauty and when you go to get your nose pierced do it with the thought of "this diamonds for you my lord".



Jewerly connects us! But it should not bind us. It is intended to glorify God. So I am convinced that I will probably never wear my class ring as I did years ago. Because it was a milestone I have passed, so now I vow to pass the gold on.



However, the joy in my husband's face from recieving his back was a God thing from my feeling. I am happy to see his smile a very cool thing. All over something missing that has returned.



All of this about jewerly is connected to Christ in the conclusion of. You can have it and not wear, like salvation, put it in a box, but rest assured the dead and risen savior will return some things back your way it is in his power. How awesome is that. He can track us from 1981 graduation to the current 2009 and give us a gift.



Keep the jewerly but only if you wear it like God commands. But recall how adorned heaven will be. Live like you were their now!!!!!

I never thought I was a mosaic only a picture,

Some really painful days have been mixed with exhillirating moments. today God sifted me again and I made a really tuff choice. I let my child fall to the hands of grace, and pray he seeks it. A mom is meant to love and protect, it is difficult to realize your love and protection is sometimes not under the full authority of GOD. We as a mom/ parent must let go when it is needed. Some things are not intended to be fixed, it must remain broken. Which makes me grit my teeth and tighten my jaw muscle, only to swallow and feel the pain. I feel the urge to scream "really GOD is this what you want for me, my family, my son" But his spirits arises within and I don't need to question anymore.


He points me to the mother from the book of Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30 I am the mom as she was the mom with a child whom is "out of his mind " To hard to imagine that I can get the faith to resolve if it is his plan" I desire it ,but the question is does GOD desire it to resolve. Perhaps! and that must be a complete answer I settle on. Becoming the full Sephonician mom is how I seek to come to my Lord.

I am a firm beliver that some forms of sin are deeper in the soul, some are of the head and some to the core, as some is the seed itself. It takes love, compassion, patience and surrender to endure the pain, when the sin of others has a direct influence upon your life. Of course some of these are easy to implement, so long as you have no great history with the sinner. But it is about the connection , and that is what Christ intends it to be about. If you do not make connections then you are not seeking Christ. So, realize a child, a husband ,a father, a mother in -law a brother is a connection and sometimes great pain can come from these connections.Yet you can't put the puzzel of your life GOD has in place, if you miss or avoid picking one piece up to see if it fits. Completion is sometimes the corner piece, sometimes the jagged piece, sometimes the center piece. In completing the masters piece that is your heart it will take many hours working on this puzzel just keep it out on the table and work it daily.

At the age of 40 plus I am close to looking like a Thomas Kincade painting, but yet still so far away from it. I don't question my price in the art gallery anymore. i am priceless ,I am his, and he has created a one of a kind with flaws and they are created by GOD.

When Mosaic Church was started 2 years ago I knew it was intended to bring a joyful noise, sometimes joy is "crying ",and I certainly have done my share of that.

yet now I get it Mosaic is me, a mom in pain, a wife healing, a daughter forgiving, a sister seeking. I am not the picture just a piece of his puzzle.

Sandy