At least two years ago, one of my diamond earrings flew out of my ear.

I know that this happened in my house, I know it happened in my bedroom en suite, and I knew it was there somewhere.

Despite the screw on backs on the earrings,taking towels off my wet hair has pulled earrings out in the past. The first lesson I learned is I need to take them out at night and put them in the jewelry case.

This pair of diamond earrings is extremely precious to me because my husband got them for me – I kept them in my ears all the time. So this loss was devastating. But I knew it was here somewhere!

I do distinctly remember finding the earring and it’s circular diamond halo, and putting it in a safe place.

Because I am also a certain age, I forgot where that safe place was.

For at least two years, I have been looking for this diamond stud and halo.

My husband was understandably skeptical that I knew where it was. My ADHD has me all over the place. I had a distinct memory of putting the diamond somewhere more safe! He would nod at me reassuringly, at the same time giving me the “uh huh” look, each time I told him the story.

I have grieved this for these years. Not for the value of the diamonds, but the value of what they meant to me, as a precious thoughtful gift from my husband.

This morning, I had a doctors appointment. It was cash only because their credit card machine is broken, so I picked up the money on the way to the office, and slid it into my wallet.

I never carry cash. And if I do, I usually just put it in my pants pocket.

When I got to the office and checked in, Jennifer asked me for my co-pay. I opened my wallet and pulled out the co-pay – and there was the diamond and it’s halo.

I couldn’t believe it. Near tears, I explained the story to Jennifer.I could not wait to get home and put both diamonds in my ears again after so long!

I had another stop to make. On the way, I heard a still, soft voice tell me to put the earring in my ear. I heard it again, but I didn’t listen. I was dead set on getting to my next location.

After that stop, I started driving home and reached into my wallet to get the earring so I could place it in my ear.

It wasn’t there! I started frantically searching through my wallet, finally pulling over any parking lot so that I could really go through the wallet. It’s a fabric wallet, and I went over every inch of it and the diamond earring wasn’t there. Nor was the halo. I dumped out my purse on the side that the wallet was – nothing! 

I called Jennifer back and asked her if she had seen the earring – I noticed that there was a small hole in my wallet that was made when the wallet was unzipped, just enough space for the diamond earring to get through. She searched the office and the counter, and was not able to find it.

Then I went back to the other appointment location I was at, and had the same results. No diamond or halo.

By now I’m crying, and praying, and asking God to forgive me for not listening when he told me so clearly to put the earring in my ear. If I had done it when he told me to, it wouldn’t have gotten lost.

When I got home, I put the wallet on the counter, and I began to remove all of the items in it so that I could cut it apart in the search for my jewelry.

I realized I left my phone in the car, so I went back to the car and decided  I would look for the diamond earring while I was there.

And right there on the seat, in the seam underneath where I was sitting, glimmered my diamond earring and halo. I immediately went in the house and found its mate, and put both earrings and halos into my ears.

Still sobbing, I called my husband and said listen to this whole story before you say anything. So I told him the entire saga, start to finish. He was just as happy as I was that the diamond earring was found at last!

The really cool thing about this is on the one year anniversary of my being cancer free, my husband bought me a pink diamond pendant with a diamond halo around it.

The earrings just happened to match perfectly.

As usual, God was way ahead of me on this.

Lesson learned.