Had I done this LO on Sunday as I planned, my title would have been Tears and my journaling would have stopped after the first paragraph and I would have probably still been drowning in my tears! But I did it yesterday after spending a very fulfilling afternoon at Kid's Time on Wednesday. The journaling just kept going and going and ended up being invaluable therapy for me.
The sidewalk where I had hoped to find my diamond had 88 sets of little feet walking over it going into the gym and 88 sets of little feet leaving the gym that day. That diamond may have been picked up by a shoe and carried who know where...but I just had to look. Will I every look again? Probably, but no more tears!
Journaling:
No amount of tears will ever bring my cherished
diamond back! I discovered Sunday going to church that the diamond was gone from my engagement ring.
I managed to fight off the tears teaching my 3 & 4 Year Olds Sunday School class. However, I cried all the way home...cried making lunch...and the tears just kept coming all afternoon. My dear sweet husband tried his best to comfort me and assured me the diamond would be replaced. I managed to stop crying for his sake...but my heart still ached. This was the diamond he had given me 37 years ago!
My helper at church wondered if the diamond could have come out when I fell last Wednesday before Kid’s Time. I hadn’t thought of that possibility but maybe it was that same sidewalk that had scrapped my knee and elbow that could also bend the prong on my ring straight up! I searched the sidewalk and flower bed for my diamond Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and went to Kid’s Time early on Wednesday to search once more. Sadly, I couldn’t help thinking that if I hadn’t been there last week I would still have my diamond. It was not surprising that I could entertain such a thought since I had been struggling with whether I wanted to continue working with the Kid’s time program. As I sit here journaling, I see our prayer circle of those rough-housing almost impossible 3rd, 4th & 5th grade
boys as they pause for a few moments each week to pray for a sick friend, to thank God for the safe return of one’s dad from Iraq whom we had been praying for this past year, and yes, even thanking God for Kid’s Time!
No DIAMOND can be cherished any greater
than the moments I have had the privilege to spend
with these kids ... God’s little “Diamonds in the Rough”!
Will I do Kid’s Time next year? I think I just found my answer!
Kit Information (Designer & Kit Names Only): Splish Splash and Iron and Lace Flowers Kits by Designs by CAZ and the Diamond solitare and alpha from Diane Isbell's Best Friends
A BIG THANK YOU to each of you...your responses have been very uplifting. And it seems many have had the same experience of the loss a precious diamond, too! So I send you in return my expressions of sorry as well. My sadness has turned to warmth over having so many here in the deco family that took time share expression of comfort and concern! Thanks again!
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