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!!!!!