After my graduation from High School, it was time for me to leave home and move quite a distance away to attend college. Before I left, I brought a Sands of Jesus pendant for everyone in my bible study class. We had come such a long way together in the four years we spend studying the Good Book that I wanted to give them all something to remember our journey together with. These strangers who had become so close and dear to me. I still hear from them today years later and they still tell me how much the pendants mean to them even now after these years have gone by.

I read the Bible every day to my yet unborn baby during my pregnancy. I wanted these words of the life of Jesus to reach my child as it grows inside of me peacefully. Keeping a necklace from Sands of Jesus close to my womb, I felt His joy radiate throughout us, mother and child. I wanted my child to grow up into a strong Christian and to keep this locket with them as a reminder of the time we spent together before they were born to this Earth. Hopefully as my future child looks at it later in life, he or she will remember the lessons and thing of our Lord and me in happiness, joy and peace.

When I was 14 years old, my family took the only international trip we ever did together growing up. My brothers, father & mother all flew from Newark NJ to Tel Aviv Israel on our way to Jerusalem for 2 weeks in the fall of 1987. Until I had a family of my own, that was the most special time we had together in a place where I could feel His presence all around my family and I. I brought home a pendant from Sands of Jesus a couple of years ago during a trip to Bible study retreat and have it to remember that time my family and I shared and what it meant to all of us.

My sister Maggie and I share a special bond with ear other and with Christ, our Lord. We purchased matching lockets with a precious piece of His never ending history sealed inside to keep with us for all time. When I look at my locket, I can feel His glory and a connection with my sister wherever her or I may be at the time. Thank you very much Sands of Jesus for helping us come closer to the ones we love in this life.

My mother, Dorothy was sick and in the hospital all of last year and was succumbing to her illness near Christmas time. She told us not to worry as she felt she was getting closer to her long awaited meeting with God and that she was going to a better place. She said she was ready for the next step in her journey. For my last Christmas present to her, I provided her with a Sands of Jesus necklace for her to keep at her bedside. I know that it brought her tremendous comfort as she never had a chance herself to visit Holy Israel where our lord called his home on Earth during his time here. When my mother passed right before the New Year, along with a few keepsakes, we laid her to her final rest with the necklace she loved so much. This way she would have a piece of the Holy Land by her side for eternity.

As an avid student of Biblical history, I’ve had the chance to travel to sites mentioned in early Christian history located in modern day Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey. I had always brought back pieces of these lands from my trips for my own mementos and to show them to visitors as I discuss my travels and my studies in the Holy lands. It is of tremendous happiness to me when I can now gift a special person in my life a piece of the Holy Land in such a timeless keepsake as the Sands of Jesus locket collections. They have become my most favorite of gifts and I will often have them inscribed for the special people in my life.

A person very dear to me presented me, as a gift, a Sands of Jesus locket when I was in the hospital after a disastrous car accident. Along with this beautiful gift, they had given me a special edition King James Bible which I studied carefully over the time I spent in the hospital and in rehab and physical therapy. I could look closely at the grains of sand held in the vial and allow myself to drift into the stories of our Lord and His lessons to us and feel closer to them with a treasured piece of Jerusalem by my side.

I wasn’t baptized until much later in life, specifically, my 45th birthday. Having not known His love, I had wandered for many years uncertain of the truth, of what is right and what is wrong. Having come back into the fold, I brought home a beautiful Sands of Jesus locket to inspire me every day in my choices to be closer to the Lord. The locket with a precious piece of the Holy Land near the Hill of Golgotha Calvary reminds me of the suffering our Lord went through for us and our sins. What He did to show us his love for us and for us to remember to do the right thing always and forever.