Greetings to everyone! Love and grace multiplied to you all!

We would like all of you to know that Joy and I recently celebrated our 1year anniversary on the 16th of January! It’s been a difficult 1st year but we did it and owe our success to God! It’s his love in our hearts and grace over our lives that enabled us to make it and as long as we have him we will continue to have an amazing and successful marriage!

Joy and I had our first snow experience together a few weeks ago and wow, what an experience it was. We made an awesome snowboard jump and a really cool snowman named Krusty. We woke up Thursday morning to a beautiful snow day so we decided to celebrate by building a snowboard jump with our friend Jason Pierce . We made the jump, had heaps of fun snowboarding on it and then later warmed ourselves up with pizza. The next day the snow was even thicker so we decided to take photos together and build a snowman. Afterwards we went home where Joy noticed that my ring wasn’t on my finger. “Oh, you took your ring off ” she said. “ I replied, “No I didn’t.” I looked down at my hand and it was gone! Wow, I didn’t even notice. I’d done the unthinkable! The place where we took photos and built Krusty was near home so I immediately went back to searched the snow while Joy searched the house. I couldn’t find it anywhere so I returned home hoping to hear good news from Joy. She hadn’t found it either but I assured her that it would be. If it wasn’t in the house or by where we took photos or by where we made Krusty it had to be by the hill we snowboarded on and that’s exactly where I went next. The drive there was an uneasy one as I wrestled with thoughts of not finding it but I continued encouraging myself that I’d find it. When I got there I found the hill a snowy muddy mess from the day before and knew that finding my ring was near impossible without a metal detector. I searched anyway but my endeavors were marked with failure and disappointment. I returned home to Joy with bad news but again assured her and myself that it would be found. “You’ve hardly looked for your ring.” she said. “Do you even care about finding it?” I was gutted over losing my ring of course I wanted to find it! “The snow will be melted by tomorrow and then I’ll have another look”, I said. Saturday came and went taking very little snow with it and leaving me another day with no ring. On Sunday we went to church where we shared what had happened with friends then afterwards I went back to the places where it could’ve fallen off at it to have another look. I couldn’t find it anywhere! “God, you know where my ring is. Will you please show me where to look and help me find it?” I continued to look and found nothing. I searched and searched and searched and could not find my ring anywhere! Hopelessness was slowly starting to set in as the discouragement of not finding my ring after three days of looking weighed on me. “How could I lose my ring and not feel it slip off my finger? I’ve heard of others losing their rings but I never thought it would happen to me!” Maybe someone found it and I’ll run in to that person, see that they have it and get it back. It could happen.”

The next day I decided to go back to the hill to search for my favorite ring one more time. “I wasn’t wearing gloves when we built the jump so maybe my ring slipped off then.” The sky was clearer and sunnier than it had been Friday, Saturday and Sunday so I just knew that if it was there it would be found. Again I looked and looked and looked and another day of searching came and went with no success. Later that evening I received a call from my friend Sy who goes to the same church as us and also lives near the hill where we built the snow jump. He told me that he had found my ring! “What! Are you sure it’s my ring?” I asked. “Well, it has Joy’s name engraved in it with a diamond as the “O”. Doesn’t your ring have that?” he asked. I said “Yeah!” How did you find it.” I asked. “Well my neighbor’s dog got out so I volunteered to help catch it and found your ring in the process! I looked down and there it was.” It’s a good thing that I told him on Sunday that I lost it otherwise he wouldn’t have known it was missing. I couldn’t believe it! Only God could make something so miraculous happen and I was completely amazed at how he orchestrated me getting my ring back! It was found in a public park that I had searched several times, four days later by a friend! Some don’t like the thought of something so amazing as this being explained away with words like “God did it” but those words are perfectly fine with me.

P.S I got my ring resized for free too. I left it at a jewelry repair shop for a resizing quote and they resized it and gave it back to me 4 days later!

Moore-Love