We little knew the day that
God was going to call your name,
In life we loved you dearly,
in death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose you,
but in God we put our trust,
In times as difficult as this,
faith is such a must.
You left us peaceful memories,
your love is still our guide,
And though we cannot see you,
you are always at our side.
Our family chain is broken,
and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again.
Ron Tranmer
My chain is broken, my link, my circle, my safety, my protection, my lifesaver, my forever.......on Earth...that is....
Today I woke up to find a little string stuck to a prong on my engagement ring..no biggie..but I know it was something from God so that I would notice that a top of one of the other prongs of the ring had broken off...probably in one of the many moves with the girls and thankfully by seeing that string, it let me see the broken one before the diamond was lost.
So I wept...and wept....not because the ring was broken...I knew it could be fixed...but because I would now have to take the ring off to be mended. In 22 1/2 years of marriage, I can't remember many times that this ring has left my finger. It was taken off during 2 c-sections, and maybe for squishing up some meatballs. It was a part of me, and it just never left my hand. Once when my girls were little the same thing happened and we had it fixed, but then my sweetie was here to put it back on my finger. So I wept again. So then comes the question, "when is the right time to take your wedding rings off?" No one can give you the appropriate answer...there is no right or wrong time. But I wanted it to be my decision, not the decision of the metal device that was cutting my forever from my hand.
I had to get to my classroom, so I put a band-aid over the ring to protect the diamond until I could get to the jeweler. I stopped to get a diet coke (surprise) at the Chevron and I hear a song playing...dang it...don't cry, don't cry, don't cry in the middle of the Chevron....Too late...So before I tell you the song, I will tell you a small side story. The wonderful parents that Dave and I were, one of the movies we loved to watch was "The Bodyguard". Okay, don't judge. We love the music, and aside from the inappropriate scenes & language, hey, we liked the story. So as strange as it may seem to you, it is one movie that is "special" to us because of the memories watching it together. So ready for the song? "I have nothing" by Whitney Houston. But the line that was playing when I noticed it was this...
