Pearls

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

    ⁴⁴ “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. 

When a man found it, he hid it again, and

 then in his joy went and sold

 all he had and bought that field.

   ⁴⁵ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant 

looking for fine pearls. ⁴⁶ When he found one of great value, 

he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

I have always loved pearls.  I feel like they represent purity 

and heaven.  I feel like when we get to heaven one day, 

pearls will be everywhere :)

According to the dictionary...

 the word pearl has become a metaphor for something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.

Well, I know many of you have heard of the movie Courageous.

It's amazing and if you haven't watched it, GO!!!
Heath and I went to see it back in November.

(if you haven't watched it, I'm about to tell a small part of the movie)

There is a section of the movie where one of the father's takes his teenage

daughter on a daddy/daughter date and gives her a promise ring.

A ring to represent her promise to wait on the

 man of God that she will meet one day and not to ever

settle for anything less.  He let her know how valuable she is

and how much he loved her :)

Well.... as soon as we leave the movie, Heath and I are both 

sobbing and he says that he wants to do that with LL one day.  

Talk about sobbing even more when he said that!!!  

So... when it came to picking out what I would like to have as

a present for having LL, it became pretty clear...

Let me back track a bit first though... 

My first engagement ring, I loved, but I found a different setting

that I really fell in love with and Heath took my diamond from my first one

and put it in the new setting for our 2nd Christmas.  So, that left us with 

the first setting.  We had already decided that we would like to have 

something put in the setting to pass down to our children one day.

So... this also became clear on the future promise ring for LL  :)

This is my first engagement setting and what will be used for LL's 

promise ring, we will have a pearl placed in this setting.

This will be given to her and all explained to her on either 

her twelfth or thirteenth birthday.

  On a date with daddy of course :)

Now, back to my gift for having LL...

We had talked about getting her birthstone ring for my gift but

after the movie and with the Lord laying the verses above on 

my heart AND my love for pearls... it was clear for me

 to get a pearl ring!  :)

Here is a picture of the final product..  It took me lots of hours &

even one swap trying to find the "just right" one.  

Here is my find though and I just love it!!!

We want Laura Leigh to know that she, just like a pearl,

has value and she is precious and worth being sought after &

to never settle for anything less than what Jesus has for her

for everything and area in her life.

Just like the verse above, one day, when Jesus

has the man of God ready for her,

 (hopefully when she is at least 25 haha)

 he will seek her and realize her value and 

will do whatever it takes to show

her the value she possess as a child of God 

and to honor her and that. 

 Special thanks to our Jesus for putting all of this 

on our hearts and for having it all come together.  When I 

say all coming together, I mean for also sending me my 

man of God that values me and my relationship

 with Christ as well  and then together

made it possible to be blessed with the greatest

love of all besides the love of Christ...

Our pearl, Laura Leigh :)