Prayer Box Pendants

Prayer box pendants are worn all over the world by people of many faiths - even people of little or no faith. Prayer is a popular response in many situations: in times of joy, in times of sadness, in times of distress and in times of thankfulness. A beautiful piece of jewelry that is widely known and accepted and that may be used as a reminder to pray.

How to use
To use the prayer box, write an individual prayer on a tiny piece of paper and place it inside the locket- style box pendant. Latch the box shut and then wear the pendant on a chain around your neck. If you would rather, you may attach the box to a key chain, a zipper or other apparel instead of wearing it around your neck.

Box does not mean square!
These pendants come in many different styles, shapes and sizes. I've seen rectangular lockets with angels on the front and back; round silver and gold-plated filigree balls that open and latch; butterfly shaped pendants; cylindrical pendants - all valuable as prayer boxes. Don't think "square" when adding a prayer box to your jewelry collection. Think "outside the box" when it comes to design. Prayer box pendants may be used like other lockets or charms as gifts to loved ones for Valentine's Day, for Christmas gifts, for christenings, weddings, and funerals to let the recipients know you are praying for them. Speaking of charms, I centered my prayer box pendant on a herringbone sterling silver necklace chain. To that I added round silver balls and long silver filler beads and another charm on each side, ending with more round and long silver beads. The two or more added charms could remind you of the friends or relatives for whom you are voicing your prayers or the charms could have words like LOVE, PEACE, or number one AUNT. Since the prayer pendants are small you could even use 3 or so prayer pendants on the necklace instead of the words. Design your own! Beautiful!

Affordable and Durable
Sterling silver is the precious metal of choice in today's manufacturing of these intriguing boxes. Sterling is much more affordable than gold and it makes beautiful jewelry. Fine silver is 99.9 percent pure, but at that percent of purity it is much too soft for jewelry making just as pure gold is too soft. Sterling silver is 92.5 percent pure silver alloyed with another metal, usually copper, to give it strength in the same way as pure gold is mixed with other metals to produce 14K gold.

Find it on the world wide web
Finding a prayer box pendant at your local mall or jewelry store is like searching for a "needle in a haystack." After many hours of shopping, I've learned that most stores do not carry prayer box pendants. The nice personnel behind the jewelry counters look at me questioningly when I ask for this type of pendant. However, prayers are answered for those of us who search the world wide web and find online retailers who carry a vast array of prayer box jewelry. You may expect to pay from $4 to $1000.00 plus for one prayer pendant depending on how fancy your prayer box pendant is.

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