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DIAMONDS ARE FOR 'UH OH'

I once lost the diamond out of my engagement ring gardening at our daughter’s preschool. My husband was understanding: he just put his hand on my shoulder and said, kindly, “Don’t worry about it. It’s just a ‘thing.’”

Well, recently I wrote about a happy young couple who got engaged on a Colorado mountaintop after the future bridegroom went through a Keystone Kops caper getting the ring from Omaha and so forth.

And wouldn’t you know it: his bride-to-be looked down at her hand the other day (engaged girls do that a lot!) and the stone was GONE!

Worse, she was on the phone with her future MOTHER-IN-LAW at the time!

It was just a “thing,” too, but only days old. But fortunately, she found it in a bathroom hand towel, and they’re going to fix the setting ASAP. Whew.

Coincidentally, I’m reading the Karen Hughes autobiography, “Ten Minutes From Normal,” about a top advisor to President Bush. She was in Seoul, Korea, not far from where her father had fought communists during the Korean War.

Her surroundings were vastly different from wartime: she was attending a reception at the presidential palace when she looked down and was “sickened” to see that her engagement ring diamond was missing.

While the two presidents were giving their toasts, her eyes swept all around the floor, trying to spot it, “but the room was huge and the carpet was light,” she wrote.

She showed her “empty” ring to the coat-check man, but he didn’t speak English and she didn’t speak Korean, so she went back to her hotel, devastated.

Thirty minutes later, a message came over her pager: “STONE FOUND.”

The Korean workers had gotten down on their hands and knees with combs to find it.

She was blown away by that incident, and many others kindnesses, that she says demonstrate how grateful the South Koreans are to us for helping them maintain their freedom.

Liberty: it’s only a “thing,” too. But once you’ve had it, you know it’s even more precious than diamonds.

And that’s something to think about, this Fourth of July weekend.
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Prayer request: We lift our hands to You, Father, to protect Amy, 45, during open-heart surgery today. She is so young, Lord! And her valve problem is so serious. Be with her two young children and husband, and strengthen the hands and minds of her medical team so that the surgery is highly successful. Most of all, draw her and her family to Yourself through this trial, and lend them Your heart, which is all any of us ever really needs. (Philippians 2:2-4)