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The Indian Ring
When I was a little girl, I loved Navajo Indian jewelry—the silver jewelry with turquoise stones. And I had a pretty Indian bracelet my father had given me. It had a turquoise right in the middle of it, with tiny little silver beads all around it. How I loved that bracelet, and it became shinier and prettier each day I wore it! And that was every day. I also liked Navajo Indian rings, especially with an Indian thunderbird on them and a turquoise right in the middle.
One day at the end of lunchtime, as I was running back toward school, almost late, there in the grass near the steps was that very thing—an Indian thunderbird ring. Quickly I picked it up and put it in my pocket and went into class. I had to decide what to do with it. All that afternoon it was hard for me to pay attention in class for thinking about it.
Imagine my finding a thunderbird ring—just what I had always wanted! "Finders keepers," I kept telling myself. (The last part of that saying is "losers weepers," but I didn't like to think about that.) From time to time I would feel my pocket just to make sure the ring was still there.
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October 26, 1974 issue
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The Immediacy of the Christ
FLINT LEWIS TOWNSEND
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Love Your Way!
ELIZABETH KEYES WILLIAMS
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Evil's Name Isn't Joe
BETTY REISS
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Using Our Spiritual Dominion
JULIUS EVANS
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What Do You Want?
KATHLEEN S. LUNDMAN
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Finding Friends by Being a Friend
EVELYN MAY GARNHAM
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The Indian Ring
Judith Ann Hardy
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In Command
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Health and Geography
Naomi Price
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While I was driving home after a meeting one evening, my car...
Jean Edgar Taylor
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One morning, very early, I awoke, and several moments later...
Patricia Schuster
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My family and I had an opportunity a few years ago to spend a...
Lawrence A. Backus with contributions from Asceneth H. Backus
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"You are God's perfect child" were the words spoken to me by...
Roxie L. Conway
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Since I had been an elementary school teacher, I had been...
Lois Sauer Degler
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It is now almost ten years since I began...
Judith Ann Jones
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Letters to the Press
J. Buroughs Stokes