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Engagement ring—found
One afternoon, my daughter called me. She was very fearful and upset because she had just noticed her diamond engagement ring was missing. She knew she was wearing it when she left her house that morning, but she had no idea where or when the ring had fallen off. She had spent a busy day, working in a warehouse and running errands.
When she said she’d lost her ring, my response was swift and full of conviction. “No!” I said firmly. I repeated “no” over and over again to my daughter. I refused to entertain for one second the possibility that she could be separated from one iota of good, which belonged to her. I told her that the ring symbolized her husband’s love, devotion, commitment, and loyalty, which were reflections of God’s love toward her—and that love would always be safely intact. It was impossible under any circumstances for that love to be taken from her or slip away.
I reminded her of the many times over the years we had proved the truth that we can never be separated from what rightfully belongs to us. One time, another ring, which had been lost for many months, was found under the floor mat of a car that had been sold and that was about to be transferred to its new owner. I had listened in prayer and followed a spiritual intuition to look one more time where I had already looked many times, and I found it. I reminded her of other times, too, when lost items had been recovered.
Because of these past instances, I never doubted that my daughter would find her ring. We continued to pray, and she called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful support.
A few days later my daughter called again and joyously exclaimed that her ring had been found! The details are precious and awe-inspiring to me. My daughter works for a cousin-in-law who owns a paper business, and the offices are in a huge warehouse. After she lost the ring, her husband walked the warehouse looking for it, asking everyone there to look as well. A few days later, her cousin happened to drop some papers while walking across a lawn. The lawn had been covered with snow from a recent blizzard. As her cousin knelt in the partially melted snow to pick up the papers, right there, he spotted the ring in the grass. The next day, another blizzard passed through and left new snow on the lawn.
I cherish this demonstration of God’s perfect order and of His control in our lives. From the moment my daughter first called me, I knew that finding the ring would not be a miracle, but the natural fulfilling of God’s law. As Mary Baker Eddy states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God’s unchangeable law” (p. 135 ).
—Victoria Draper, San Marcos, California, US