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A Three-Generation Treasure Found: Julie’s Miraculous Engagement Ring Recovery in Hanover, Maryland

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Julie’s extraordinary engagement ring—featuring a Montana sapphire centerpiece, surrounded by diamonds from three generations of family heirlooms and crafted with gold from her mother’s wedding band—beautifully symbolizes a legacy of love brought together by her fiancé Nick.

Overwhelmed with joy and relief, Julie stands beside her mother and stepfather moments after being reunited with her irreplaceable engagement ring, gratefully celebrating its recovery by metal detectorist Brian Rudolph.

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (also known as THE RING HERO) searches Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Cliffs, Houses and Vehicles. He Will Find Your Lost Item! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

By Brian Rudolph – Professional Ring Finder & Metal Detectorist
Owner, METAL DETECTING ADVENTURES INC (Clarksburg, Maryland)

There are lost rings… and then there are rings like Julie’s.

This wasn’t just a piece of jewelry. It was a living story—woven together from three generations of love, sacrifice, and legacy. When Julie called me, her voice shaking and overcome with emotion, I immediately understood: this wasn’t simply about finding a lost item. It was about restoring something deeply personal, something irreplaceable.

A Ring Unlike Any Other

Julie’s engagement ring was a masterpiece of meaning and craftsmanship. Her fiancé Nick had secretly spent weeks designing it—carefully blending family history into one breathtaking symbol of their future together.

The ring featured: Diamonds from Julie’s great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother, yellow gold from her mother’s original wedding band, a diamond added by Nick to balance the design, a stunning Montana sapphire as the centerpiece, a very inch of that ring carried a story. Every stone held a memory.

How It Was Lost

While visiting family in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Julie had taken off her ring the night before and placed it in her pants pocket for safekeeping. The next day, forgetting it was there, she put the pants back on, added her phone to the same pocket, and headed out to mow roughly two acres of property using a tractor mower.
Somewhere during that routine task… the unthinkable happened.
When Julie returned to the house, the ring was gone.

The Search Begins

Julie and her family immediately sprang into action. They even purchased a metal detector and searched the property themselves. Despite their efforts, the ring remained missing.

Days passed. The heartbreak deepened. The guilt weighed heavily on Julie. That’s when she found me through The Ring Finders directory and reached out, hoping—just hoping—that I might be able to help.

Arriving on the Scene

A few days later, I made the hour-and-fifteen-minute drive north to Hanover. The countryside was absolutely beautiful—but I knew we had a serious challenge ahead. Julie walked me through three key areas: Where she pulled out her phone near the woods, where she shifted on the tractor to avoid tree branches, where the mower belt broke and she dismounted. There was also a real concern: the ring could have been run over by another mower—or worse, flung into a nearby creek.

Faith Before the Search

Before turning on my detector, I asked Julie if we could pause for a moment of prayer. We held hands and asked the Lord for guidance—that if the ring was on the property, I would be led directly to it. Moments like that matter. They center the mission.

Hours of Uncertainty

I began methodically grid-searching each section. First area—nothing but scrap metal. Second area—still nothing. By this point, the emotional weight was building. Julie was trying to stay hopeful, but I could see the concern in her eyes. I reminded her: sometimes the find comes at the very end.

The Breakthrough

Finally, I moved to the third area—the spot where she had stepped off the tractor during the belt repair. Just about six feet from where Julie believed she had dismounted…BEEP. A strong, clean signal. The kind you don’t ignore. I dropped to my knees, zeroed in with my pinpointer… and there it was. A flash of brilliance beneath the surface. Julie’s ring.

A Moment of Pure Joy

I lifted it from the ground and held it up. Julie saw it—and instantly broke down in tears of joy. I walked toward her, and she met me halfway. We embraced, celebrating the return of something that truly could never be replaced.

Soon, her mother and stepfather joined us, drawn by the excitement (and admittedly, my loud celebratory shout!). The joy was contagious. Hugs, laughter, gratitude—it filled the entire property. Julie called Nick, who was back in Michigan, and he thanked me personally. You could hear the relief in his voice.

A Perfect Ending

Before I left, we all gathered together once more—hand in hand—and thanked the Lord for answering our prayer. That moment… was just as powerful as finding the ring itself.

As I drove away, I glanced back at those two acres of land and felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude. Not just for the successful recovery—but for being part of something so meaningful. Because sometimes, it’s not just about what’s lost…
It’s about what’s restored.

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Lost on the Edge: A Cliffside Search That Brought Two Rings Home in Middle River, Maryland

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Olivia’s stunning white gold diamond wedding band and engagement ring, beautifully reunited after an intense multi-day cliffside recovery.

Olivia and her husband Anthony celebrating the successful recovery of both cherished rings, sharing a joyful moment they’ll never forget.

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (also known as THE RING HERO) searches  Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Cliffs, Houses and Vehicles. He Will Find Your Lost Item! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

When Olivia reached out to me, her voice carried the kind of heartbreak that only comes from losing something truly irreplaceable. Her white gold diamond wedding band and matching engagement ring had vanished days earlier—somewhere down a dangerously steep hillside in her backyard. It wasn’t until I got to the search site that I was told that the rings disappeared somewhere down a steep embankment. I just thought the rings were somewhere in the backyard.

Her husband Anthony had already tried everything he could, even using a metal detector to recover the rings himself. But despite his determination, the search came up empty. The couple feared the worst—that the rings were gone forever. That’s when they discovered The Ring Finders, an international directory of metal detecting specialists, and contacted me for help.

A Hill That Felt Like a Cliff

When I arrived at their home in Middle River, Maryland, I quickly realized this would be no ordinary search. This “hill” was closer to a cliff—steep, unstable, and covered in thick overgrowth. Tall weeds, tangled plant life, and debris made every step—and every sweep of the metal detector—a challenge. Still, I pressed on.

Before I began the search, I asked the couple if we could pray for my success and ask the Lord to guide me to the special rings. They were quite on board with my suggestion and we did so excitedly. I told the couple that since God is the designer of betrothal and marriage, I always assume that He loves to see people recover their special symbols of love so that they can continue to highlight amongst the world their commitment to the covenant of the betrothal and of marriage.

Within the first hour, success! About 55 feet down the slope, my detector picked up a promising signal. Hidden beneath the overgrowth was Olivia’s beautiful white gold diamond wedding band, sparkling like it had been waiting to be found. Hope was restored.

Anthony admitted that before I arrived, he had already accepted the rings were gone forever. Now, with one ring recovered, we all believed the engagement ring would soon follow.

The First Setback

But the hillside had other plans. Despite another hour of searching, the engagement ring remained missing. Without the ability to properly grid the steep terrain—and with safety becoming a real concern—we had to call it a night. I assured Olivia and Anthony that I would return with full climbing and rappelling gear so I could safely and methodically search every inch of the slope.

Round Two: Precision Meets Persistence

Nearly a week later, I returned—this time fully equipped. Starting early in the morning, I brought out everything: metal detecting gear, rappelling equipment, grid lines, and even a battery-powered weed wacker to cut through the dense vegetation.

I carefully set up ropes and began working the hillside in sections, scanning each lane with precision. The process was slow, physically demanding, and required constant adjustments to avoid interference from my gear.

After nearly six hours of intense searching, covering a massive portion of the hillside…Nothing.

Just scrap metal and bits of shredded aluminum—what detectorists call “can slaw.” It was frustrating. Confusing. Disheartening. I left that day without the engagement ring, but not without a plan. I suggested searching the very bottom of the hill—an area previously dismissed due to its distance and extreme overgrowth.

The Final Attempt

The next day, after finishing other commitments, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the ring was still out there—waiting. I called Olivia and asked if I could return one last time. She gratefully agreed, sharing that she had prayed that very morning for the ring’s recovery.

When I arrived, Anthony and Olivia were ready. This time, we headed straight for the bottom of the hill—the toughest, most unlikely area. Thick vegetation covered the ground, and nearby scrap metal from a neighboring yard created constant interference.

Anthony helped by stomping down the overgrowth so I could sweep my detector across the surface. Signal after signal—none were right. Until one was. A number appeared on my screen—almost identical to the reading from the wedding band. I dropped to my knees, pulled out my pinpointer, and carefully searched beneath the weeds. Then I saw it. A faint glimmer of metal peeking through the dirt. It was the ring! Olivia’s white gold diamond engagement ring—found after three visits, hours of searching, and a relentless commitment to not giving up.

A Moment Worth Everything.

Anthony and I embraced, overwhelmed with relief and gratitude. We looked up and gave thanks to God, recognizing the incredible moment we had just experienced. At the top of the hill, Olivia saw me holding something in my hand. Even from a distance, she knew. Tears filled her eyes as the reality sank in. Both rings—recovered.

As we made our way back up, the celebration continued. That’s when Anthony shared something unexpected: It was Olivia’s birthday.
What started as a devastating loss turned into a storybook ending—one she’ll never forget.

Reflections from the Field

This search was a powerful reminder of something I’ve learned time and time again: Sometimes the answer lies just outside the expected path.
The engagement ring wasn’t missed during earlier searches—it was simply beyond the assumed boundary. Once we expanded the search area and pushed past the doubt, everything changed.

I left their home that day with a full heart, grateful to have played a part in reuniting Olivia with her treasured rings—and witnessing such a meaningful moment in their lives.

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HE WILL RETURN TO YOU WHAT HAS BEEN LOST!

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Lost Wedding Band and Engagement Ring in Owings Maryland Forest…Found

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Dominic’s Wife Abbey’s:

14 Karat White Gold Engagement Ring Encircled with Diamonds

14 Karat White Gold Wedding Band Encircled with Diamonds

(Both were soldered together to form one ring)

 

This next story that I’m about to share will definitely go down in “metal detecting search history” as one of the most entertaining and unusual search and recovery accounts ever told. I may not get another one like this, or at least for a very very long time. So this story brings so much pleasure to me to share this one with you!

 

The ironic thing about this amazing story is that 5 days earlier I was doing a search in Boyce, Virginia for a woman who lost two missing rings.  Unfortunately, neither one were recovered. We believe they were picked up by someone shortly after the rings fell to the ground. Without giving Dominic’s story away, I’ll just say this: While I was doing this search for the woman in Boyce, I actually asked God at the Virginia search site if He would help me find her rings in a particular area that I have always wanted to find a ring that had gone missing! I have made that same request to God several other times in the last few months while I have been on searches. Well, it didn’t happen in Boyce, but it sure did happen at Dominic’s and Abbey’s estate in Owings, Maryland! Never would I have believed that God would have given me the desires of my heart so quickly after I prayed these prayers! What a great God He is! And of course, most importantly, I was able to help Dominic recover his wife’s precious 14 karat white gold, diamond covered engagement ring and diamond covered wedding band (they were soldered together)!

I got a phone call from Dominic who contacted me from the The Ring Finders directory. I immediately asked him if a particular scenario had taken place before he shared what happened to the ring, and he did in fact confirm my suspicions. For the sake of privacy, I will just tell you what happened without going into too much detail about why the ring went missing. Regardless, the video tells all and Dominic felt comfortable enough sharing on social media this amazing search and recovery story!

Three days before I got his phone call, Dominic and his wife Abbey were in the backyard of their three and a half acre estate. One thing led to another and Dominic happened to launch his wife’s 14 karat white gold, diamond covered engagement ring and diamond covered wedding band (they were soldered together). We aren’t talking about a few trees! It’s a ridiculous forest back there! Dominic immediately went looking for the ring after it took off into the woods, but he couldn’t find it anywhere in the very dense forest which dips downward into a swampy, muddy creek area at the bottom of the hill. He ordered a metal detector on Amazon after the first day of looking, and even that proved to be another failed attempt.

His account on the phone was identical to his account when I reached his property later that night at around 9:45 p.m. (3 days after the ring was lost in the woods). He was absolutely convinced of what he remembered happening. He was between two sheds that were at the place where the tree line began. He even had sticks on the ground marking exactly where he was when he threw the ring. When it went flying, he specifically remembered it going right between two trees and then straight through the forest and presumably down the hill. The strength in which he exerted gave Dominic confidence that the ring could have absolutely hit the bottom of the hill into the swampy creek. As I shared above, he bought a metal detector on Amazon and searched for an additional 10 hours but to no avail! He was done. He had given up looking, detecting and using words that I cannot describe on social media! It was time that he called a professional; someone who could lend a hand to this strange “ring gone missing” mystery.

When Dominic called me, I told him that after the search was over, he needed to send his metal detector back to Amazon for a refund! The ring would have to be somewhere on his property even though he spent three days searching with no luck, because nobody would be trespassing on that private property area that Dominic and his wife Ashley owns. The ring was somewhere out there. It was just a matter of where and how much time it would take for me to find it!

As I shared, I got out to the property at around 9:45 p.m. and immediately started pulling my gear out of the car. I love night searches. In fact, it can be a great advantage to search for missing items in total darkness with the help, of course, of my headlight. I was hoping I would see a shiny brilliant diamond ring glistening through the leaves that were scattered everywhere in the forest! Dominic took me to the “scene of the crime” and he reviewed with me the story from beginning to end as to where the ring was before it was tossed and where he believed it ended up.

I did not mention to him at the time that I was thinking how strange it was that he searched for so many hours with the metal detector and he still couldn’t come up with the precious keepsake. Even with a bad detector, this was dense woods we were talking about here. Not some overly populated residential or commercial area. Any detector will pick up the metal signals and there should not have been so many that it would cause him frustration by looking at all the metal on the surface of the leaves or just below some of the leaves. And in fact that is what he said. There wasn’t too much metal as you go down the hill. There was quite a bit of scrap metal and small pieces of aluminum towards the top of the hill where the woods begin, because the previous owner threw scrap metal into the forest at the edge of the lawn.

The other side of the coin is, that metal detectorists like me are sent out because even with a little bit of metal out there, people are convinced to metal detect only in certain areas and not to look “outside of the box” in areas that you would never think to look at.

I started out into the woods with Dominic after he took me from the top of the hill all the way down to where the muddy creek was located. That’s where I started metal detecting in every area down at the bottom. I was wearing my very tall waterproof boots (they looked like fireman boots), and the mud was so thick that when I tried to pick my boot up out of the mire, my foot would come right up out of the boot! It was almost as bad as quicksand!

Dominic showed me where he even cut down trees at the bottom of the hill across from the creek area. This guy was totally determined to find that ring! But even with all his cutting down small trees and tall bushes, his efforts were still not enough to find what he was looking for!

My next focus was to metal detect all over the leaf covered hillside. There was metal here and there but nothing that came up as a precious piece of jewelry like his wife’s engagement ring / wedding band! I searched farther over to the left and farther over to the right and made my way up to the top where the tree line began and then headed back down to the left and right areas once more. My new found friend got out his metal detector that he bought from Amazon a few days before and started searching, as well. If we were in a different location, I would have encouraged the owner of the lost property to refrain from using their detector if it was a cheap device as most homeowners purchase to find lost property. But, in this case, it was an advantage for us to have more searchers because there was only so many pieces of metal out there in the woods. We were looking for a surface find which may have only gone below the surface of the leaf beds. And there were tons of leaves! So, it was quite possible that Dominic could find the missing ring if he looked in areas where he had not searched prior to this evening.

Without reviewing the video (which I have not done yet at the time that I am typing this account), I can only estimate that we spent around 1 hour and 45 minutes of search time and we still came up with nothing. I believe on the video I began to talk with Dominic (and even to myself) about the next strategy that I believed we needed to implement since we were coming up with nothing. I was confident that I had done an excellent search grid all over the property starting from where the tree line began, heading down to the bottom of the hill and working towards the left and right sides that were even out of the range of where Dominic recalled launching the ring.

It was at this point in the search that I told Dominic that we needed to start searching the trees! We came up with absolutely nothing on the ground and I was pretty convinced that unless he chucked the ring way off beyond a 45 degree angle to the left or to the right of the area that he claimed to have seen the ring fly, Ashley’s precious property had to have landed upwards and not on the ground. I started thinking to myself how cool it would be if my theory was correct. I began to dream about finding it on a branch or in a nest of leaves somewhere in a tree above, just as I had daydreamed about it the other day in Boyce, Virginia and in those previous searches many months prior, where I thought it would be so cool to actually find a ring in a tree!

The odds of finding a ring in a tree are almost impossible. But not so in this case. Dominic told me that he had placed his wife’s engagement ring on a cord where he tied it around his neck for safekeeping while Abbey went away for a short while. The ring was to hold thoughts of her dear to his heart while she was on her trip. In reviewing the video account, at the time of the search, I was given an initial impression that the engagement / wedding band got separated from the cord before it was launched. But that apparently was not the case. The ring remained on the cord the whole time. So, at this point, when I got more clarification, I started reacessing the “crime scene” and I was more skeptical that the ring could have landed so far from the launch site. I had always questioned whether or not the ring could have really landed so far from the top of the hill, but now I really wondered, knowing that the ring was still tied to the cord. Dominic was convinced of what he saw and justified his account based on what he remembered and he verified that he used extreme force in the actual moment of release. In addition to that, he also used a test ring on a cord to see how far the ring could possibly travel. Excellent strategy on Dominic’s part! So I kept with the search in the areas where he swore the ring had traveled until the time that I realized we needed to start searching upwards.

I could tell that he wasn’t too fond of my theory even though he himself did some cutting town of some small trees and long branches the other day. But I was so grateful that he agreed to get on board with my vision and he started to assist in any way possible. I first wanted to use our metal detectors and just reach as high as we could to see if the ring landed on branches that were close enough to us without us having to climb or cut limbs down. We exhausted all of those possibilities and then within minutes of completing our metal detecting search in the reachable tree branches,  he had come back from his garage with this amazing Silky brand tree cutter and pruner and he began to cut down small trees where I instructed him to do so. Some of these trees were towering maybe 20 feet or so in the air, though nothing was too tall or thick to attack at that point. Once the trees fell, I took my metal detector and swung the coil over all of the fresh branches and leaves to see if metal would be revealed. But unfortunately, nothing turned up.

At some point, we exhausted even that idea of cutting the small trees and branches to possibly expose the lost ring. But, I was still convinced that the ring was not on the ground, but that somehow the ring got lost in the trees. This would mean that Dominic’s recollection of seeing the ring fly straight through a set of trees and down the hill into the darkness was inaccurate. This is not uncommon. People swear by their stories but then they come to find out that they were completely wrong based on the actual reveal of the lost items. Because of their emotional state or sometimes what one may had been drinking or smoking, the mind can absolutely play tricks on you! In this case, drinking and smoking were not involved at the time of the disappearance.

Dominic decided to continue metal detecting down the hill and to go back to his theory that the ring had landed down in the leaves or in the swampy creek. I stayed up at the top of the hill right where the tree line began and I still felt it was important to look up and start scanning the branches and leaves hanging from the trees farther up in the air. Most of these trees were at a 45 degree angle or farther away from the place that Dominic launched the “missile”. Obviously, my search was completely off the course that Dominic swore by.

I was determined to find this ring no matter what it took, and at this point Dominic was fine with me staying out into the early hours of the morning if I had to keep searching. Finally, after many scans with my eyes focusing in the trees, slowly panning from the left to the right and then back to the left again, my eyes focused in on a brilliant little ball of light coming from around 15 feet in the air! As I began to look carefully at this reflective object, I noticed that it was swinging from a camouflage colored cord! I found it! I found the beautiful 14 karat white gold diamond engagement ring / wedding band which was covered with diamonds around the setting! I could not believe it! I was so beyond excited that it took everything in me to keep whispering into the GoPro and to not shout down to Dominic and share the amazing news! All I could do was stare up into the trees and smile back at what was wrapped around a branch or two with leaves everywhere around it! It looked like a snake that had wrapped itself around the branches and leaves! As I continued to be mesmerized by the shear beauty of the ring, it was almost as if it was smiling back at me, knowing that she was about to return to her proper love keeper!

Apparently, according to the location of the find, Dominic had not recalled correctly what had happened to the ring. This is very common as I shared above. When he fired it, his right hand, he released it with a motion that sent it on a 45-degree trajectory to his left and far up into a tree that caught the ring cord just as the tree line began! It did not even travel more than 15 feet into the woods! But it did go farther up and not farther down the hill!

I bet the video will not do justice to convey the stunning appearance and pure brilliance of the diamonds sparkling in every which way as my head light shined directly on the ring!

I wasted no time. I got my point-and-shoot camera out to take still photos and take some video with it, as well. I was not going to lose this opportunity to document such an incredible search and recovery which I may never get a chance to experience quite like this ever again! I was only disappointed that I couldn’t get the best pictures because of how high up the ring was and it kept getting blurry when I tried to focus in on it due to using all artificial lighting from my headlight and camera flash.

Once I finished, it was time to share the great news with Dominic who was getting extremely tired and was about to hang it up for the night.

As soon as Dominic got to the top of the hill, I brought him back to the very place where we began talking about the ring launch where he placed the sticks to mark where he threw the ring. I asked him to recount how he threw the ring and where he saw it go between the trees.

Then, I surprised him with my next statement by telling him, “That’s not what happened at all”. He responded with this extremely perplexed look on his face trying to process why I would make such a statement. And then I revealed the news that I had found the ring! Dominic was so shocked and so happy all at the same time! I have to tell you that I was so full of elation at that very moment of giving him the rundown as to where the ring ended up! I was given such a gift to come out and actually retrieve a ring in a tree! I don’t care what the reader thinks regarding the existence of God, because I knew He existed prior to this scenario and I was absolutely convinced that I was given the desire of my heart to be involved with such a search where I would discover a ring in a tree, just as I had asked God to give me such a search just several days before this one, and again, over the past many months prior! What are the odds of that?! At one in the morning, I called Chris Turner, the founder and CEO of The Ring finders in British Columbia, Canada, and he said that he had never experienced something like this in a search in the many decades that he has been doing this. Although, he said he did find a ring stuck in a tall hedge tree (the ones that grow really tall that provide privacy between homes). 

 

Dominic could not believe it! He was dumbfounded and yet so relieved all at the same time! He was kind enough to give me some more time in taking some additional  pictures and video. While he kept his Maglite shining up there in the trees, I shined my headlamp on the ring, as well, to get the best images I could with the limitations of artificial light shining on such a brilliance and sparkling piece of beauty!

Dominic eventually did the honors of cutting the branch down, which the ring cord had tied itself around for the past couple of days! He did the procedure with his extremely tall tree cutter that he used earlier in the evening. The ring was now safely back into the hands of the one who had picked out that gorgeous prize many years ago and who presented it to his beloved bride-to-be over years ago!

I won’t forget how excited the two of us were out there at the foot of the woods just high-fiving each other and hugging knowing that we found the mysterious lost ring! This had explained why all of his metal detecting and all of my time searching ended up with no results! Dominic even said that he would have never looked where I ended up spotting it. My thoughts are that he probably would have seen it one day, but no one will ever know just how much time would have gone by if he wasn’t totally focused and looking up at that very spot in the tree and not tuned in towards the common areas to search on the ground.

The two of us gathered up our gear around midnight and headed back to his garage with the biggest smiles on our faces and on our hearts! This could not have been a more successful and more exciting conclusion to my search that night! After I took some additional  photos under Dominic’s carport, the two of us shook hands, gave a gentleman’s hug and wished each other well as I got into my vehicle and headed back home (about an hour and fifteen minutes away) traveling into the night.

What a fantastic recovery! I know I will never forget this night ever! I think I thanked  Dominic just as much as he thanked me because I got such a thrill out of this search-and-recovery! Like I said before, I don’t care what any of you think, I really believe that God truly gave me the desire of my heart with being a part of this kind of search because I only started doing searches for people starting last year and I just started daydreaming about being a part of such a story just in the last few months leading right up to several days ago! This is something that could have never happened or if it would happen, who knows how many years or decades might have gone by before witnessing this kind of search! But no, When the Bible says,

“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you, as well.” – Matthew 6:33

I really believe God did give me a gift to be a part of finding Abbey’s gorgeous ring and to forever hold a story that will be cherished for many years to come, all because I have been seeking Him first in my life! I consider this a little “extra love gift” from above! It has no Heavenly value, but just a little expression from Him that says, ‘You wanted it, ok, here, have fun with it, and know I am in your life even in the smaller, less important things of life.”

 

Thanks Dominic for contacting me to help you on your search for the missing ring! Also, I personally want to thank Chris Turner for creating such an amazing directory –  The Ring Finders, in order for people to connect with metal detectorists around the world to experience such stories as I have just shared with you all!

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