Lost?

There was an interesting story in the news the other day. A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring 16 years ago while baking with her daughters. A few months ago, she was pulling up carrots in her garden and there was her wedding ring around a carrot! The best that they can figure is that it went down the sink, mixed with the compost, either went into the garden or the sheep and then the garden.... and came out the other end wrapped around a carrot.

There's a lesson for all of this somewhere in that. Nothing is every really lost. You never know what sort of a journey things will take. Imagine the adventure that the ring could tell if it could talk. Does the story tell us something deeper about our relationships? Perhaps some people leave our lives only to come back later in a different way. Sometimes we tend to hold onto things long beyond their "shelf life". Whether it's our youth... or our friends... or our possessions... or our pets... we try to extend things, relationships, experiencees long beyond what they were meant to carry.

We can't hold onto our youth. The ones who try... who colour their hair, inject botox, nip and tuck their wrinkles, etc... end up looking worse off than if they were to let go of their youth with grace and good humour. We can't hold onto our relationships. The ones who try end up regretting it eventually! Life is an ebb and flow of people, experiences, possessions, places, events... everything has a story to tell... everything has a lesson to communicate. We just need to listen and learn and take it with us.

The ring doesn't fit the Swedish woman... but she has plans to have the ring altered so it will fit. I wonder what impact the discovery of the ring is having on her relationship with her husband?