What’s It Worth to Have Faith Restored?

Only those who have encountered what one Harrisburg, Pa. woman did, can fully appreciate what it is like to have one‘s faith in humanity restored.
Debra Loew called the Herald from the Keystone State’s capital city because of the kindness of a family who was in Sea Isle City, where she has a summer home.
On July 14, Loew, a widow, went to the Sea Isle City beach. Enjoying the sun, surf and sand to the fullest, Loew did not realize that she had lost something very precious, her engagement ring.
After she realized when had happened, she was heartbroken, not only because of the loss of that sentimental piece of jewelry, but because it was the last thing that her late husband, Harold, “We called him Randy, but his name was Harold Randall Loew,“ bought for her a year before he passed away.
She cried for three days with bitter tears.
“I thought I would never see it again,” Loew said.
She reported the loss to the Sea Isle City Police Department, filed a report there, and notified her insurance company of the loss.
“It was very valuable,” she said, “Not only money wise, but because of its sentimental reason.”
“The police said it might be found, but only if someone was honest would I ever see it again,” she added.
Only if you believe in miracles and the goodness that lives in the hearts of some people you can believe what next took place.
She got a call that reported her priceless engagement ring, that link to her dear departed husband, had been found.
She cried again, but this time with tears of joy.
Dominick and Jean Pacitto and their son, Nick, 42, were walking along the Sea Isle City Promenade when Nick spotted the ring.
“That restored my faith in mankind,” said Loew. “There are still honest people in this world,” Loew said.
Such people really do exist, although the opposite seems true if we read the news from around the globe.
We read of cruelty and actions that make us mad enough to cry, but we very seldom consider that there are still folks walking this earth who are guided by principles that may seem lost forever in the abyss of humanity.
As I edit Spout Off or read Letters to the Editor, there are occasional submissions that address similar kindness: A found pocketbook or return of a checkbook; the time someone took from their own shopping to tend to a dog that scampered from a car.
Someone who stopped to help change a tire for an elderly man or woman, and who absolutely refused money for that kindness.
How much better this tired world would be if only there were more people guided by those old-fashioned principles that are really based on the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
There are those among us who truly believe what goes around comes around. Those who do good have kindness returned to them. Those who cause trouble have trouble visited upon themselves, and maybe it is true.
We have all lost precious items, sometimes, they are found, and sometimes they are not.
That is why, occasionally, it is good to read about something like what happened to Debra Loew. It could be you or me tomorrow.
If you found what seemed like a very valuable piece of jewelry, what would you do? Ask the Pacitto family what it is like to give something back that could have meant a good return in dollars.
They would likely answer, “Some things are simply too valuable to have a dollar amount place upon them. A good name is one of them; restoring faith in mankind is another.”