When
I was married at age 20,
I borrowed both of my Grandmother's rings to wear during the ceremony. I
have always loved jewelry. My Grandma B. left me her ring when she
passed on. She always teased me about how I would touch her diamond
wedding band when I was a toddler and say, "sparkly". My Grandma S. had a
beautiful ruby ring that Grandpa S. gave her when they were dating,
which I also admired. The ruby ring was passed down to my mother and she
said that Grandma wanted me to have it some day.
I
am one of four daughters and our parents had told us that we should all
pick out something of theirs that we would like to have. My sisters all
took an antique and I said that all I wanted was Grandma's ruby ring.
Sadly, my mother started showing signs of Alzheimer's disease so I
decided I better get the ring from her before it went missing. We went
through all of her jewelry and sure enough the ring was missing! A short
time before this happened there was a falling out between two of my
sisters
and me and there was much bitterness in my heart. So when I found the
ring missing, I immediately started thinking thoughts of how my sister
must have taken the ring to upset me. Now, I had no proof what so ever
that this was what happened but had convinced myself that it had to be. I
asked all three of my sisters if they had any idea where the ring might
have gone but no one had any ideas.
After
a couple of years of carrying this negativity about the ring in my
heart, I
re-read The Secret and realized that my negative thoughts were the
reason the ring was still missing. For two days in a row, I meditated
and visualized finding the ring. On Sunday morning I woke up and was
going through all of the things that I am grateful for and included that
I was grateful for finding Grandma's ring. I visualized what it felt
like sliding it on my finger, which then brought tears of joy to my
eyes.
Later
that morning I went to my parents house to
help pack their things as they are moving into a beautiful retirement
community this week. When I was putting Mom's laundry away, I looked up
on her shelf in her closet. It was where she had told me many years
before, that she kept her money in a false book and to be sure to
retrieve it if something should happen to her and Dad. I pulled down the
book and there was no money in it but to my delight the only thing in
the book was a wadded up plastic bag. I pulled out the bag and felt
something
hard inside. I knew immediately that it was the ring! Sure enough the
Universe delivered it to me as soon as I put the damaging, negativity
behind me. I have been a believer for years but until recently
revisiting the teachings of The Secret I was only scratching the surface
of what the Universe has to offer!
