Sharing something personal…..is sometimes hard to do and makes you feel vulnerable....but…..when the outcome is so beautiful you just have to share.

July 2003 my step dads time here on earth came to an end.  A few weeks before he’d past away my mom had lost the center stone to her wedding ring.  Devastated from losing her center stone and in the process of losing her husband to the battle of cancer life was not at its happiest as it was.

A few weeks after losing my step dad to the battle of the evil cancer my mom’s mission was to get her wedding ring fixed.  I got a phone call one day from my mom asking me if I knew where her rings were at.  She had placed hers and my step dad’s rings together somewhere.  My step dads also needed to be fixed.  I told her I had no clue.  I thought she had already taken them in to the jeweler.  At the time of that conversation I wasn’t too worried….they would come up.  We’ll 10 years have passed and we still have no rings.  Both my mom and I have torn the house UP looking for these rings.  Over the years I have never given up.  When thought crosses my mind and I’m over visiting or helping her clean I always look in the weird corners, drawers, even the garage.  One night I had a dream that my step dad came to me and he was holding a duffel bag in the garage, so the next day I went to my mom’s house and searched the duffel bag….No rings…..but the visit was nice…Thanks Dave. 

So to rewind the story here a bit….My mom has never been the same since my step dads passing.  Who really is right!!! She’s buried herself in work and rarely takes time to relax.  My sister and I a few years ago took a trip with her to Hawaii for her 60^th birthday for 10 days to try enforce some relaxation.  It was a great time we had and once we got back she buried herself in work again and hasn’t come up to breathe until this week.  My mom was offered a flight paid to Mexico! What a blessing and a perfect timing for this opportunity to be given to my mom.

With my mom taking off to Mexico I told her I would keep an eye on her house.  She left pretty early in the morning and that afternoon I totally forgot that I told her I would do 1 thing for her.  I ran over to the house and thank god I did….a few things we not done that worried me….worried me so much that I prayed.  I prayed for several things and for a few people to keep a look out for my mom…..Selfish me asked please if you hear me show me a sign so I will not worry for the next 7 days.   In the middle of that night I woke up scared….ugh…the worst feeling to wake up in the middle of the night and be worried about your mom and 1 more thing I forgot to do at my mom’s house.  So the next afternoon when my son got home from school we ran over to my mom’s house.  I did the one thing I forgot….I then headed up stairs and for some reason with no purpose walked directly to my mom’s computer room.  I stood there like ok why did I just walk in here.  I turned and stared at this display cabinet of my mom’s that is full of my mom’s life’s memories and gifts.  One of the gifts that was in there was an egg made by my step dad’s mom.  One of those hand crafted decorative eggs that you can place something small in.  I was drawn to open this cabinet and open the egg……so I did.  After 10 years, a few prayers to watch over my mom while she was on vacation and asking for a sign that I know someone heard me………. there were the rings……the power of prayer and belief.....She will be safe.

I’m not a huge religious person but I have been attending church in trying to come to peace and find my path with a few difficult things in life.   I am so thankful for this amazing path that I’m being guided down and the friends I’m making along the way.  I can honestly say that prays are being answered.  They may take 10 years but then end results are amazing! My mom can now be at ease with both of their wedding rings.

She is now home this evening that I write this blog and I will be meeting up with her to give her the rings tomorrow.  I'm so excited to give her back a piece of life that meant so much to her.   Thank you again for prayers answered!!!!!!