{"title":"Love Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome bonds are written in stone. These hand-selected Plymouth beach stones are paired to tell the greatest love stories ever told — romantic, maternal, sisterly, and divine. Each set is one of a kind, chosen from the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts — America's Hometown.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ruth-and-boaz","title":"Ruth \u0026 Boaz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Boaz to Ruth, Ruth 2:12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo stones. One story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a banded quartzite stone — warm honey and rust, layered like light through stained glass, smoothed by tide and time along the shores of Plymouth. 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They are better than matching. They belong together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive them to someone who just \u003cem\u003eknows\u003c\/em\u003e. The friend who shows up. The one who leaps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-selected from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Never tumbled. Never treated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you receive:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two raw stones, each unique in size and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeight: 0.5 lbs | Sourced from Plymouth, MA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New England Nova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44834532917293,"sku":"MARY-ELIZ-001","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4276\/9453\/files\/0J.jpg?v=1776076918"},{"product_id":"ruth-naomi","title":"Ruth \u0026 Naomi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. 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The one who said \u003cem\u003ewhere you go, I go\u003c\/em\u003e — and meant it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you receive:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two raw stones, each unique in size and character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeight: 0.99 lbs | Sourced from Plymouth, MA | Never tumbled. Never treated.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New England Nova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44835415359533,"sku":"RUTH-NAOMI-001","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4276\/9453\/files\/RNJ.jpg?v=1776118415"},{"product_id":"mary-joseph-a-covenant-stone-story","title":"Mary \u0026 Joseph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo stones. Two callings. One divine story.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe darker stone — rugged, earthy green — carries the quiet strength of Joseph. A faithful man who said yes when the road made no sense. The purple stone beside it glows with a softness that speaks of Mary — chosen, grace-filled, and carrying something the world wasn't ready for. Together, they are a reminder that God's greatest works often come through ordinary people who simply trusted Him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-selected from the shores of Plymouth, MA — America's hometown — cleaned, and polished with mineral oil. One-of-a-kind. 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Together the effect is almost painterly — like something deliberately composed rather than formed over millions of years deep in the earth and carried to the New England shore by glaciers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne stone leans lighter and more cream-toned, the coral feldspar dominant and soft. The other carries more of the dark blue-grey quartz and hornblende, the pink breaking through in bold patches like warmth refusing to be covered. Different in character. Unmistakably made for each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolished, these would be extraordinary. Raw, they already are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-collected from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cleaned and finished with mineral oil. 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A husband sent to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bible shows us that even the greatest of men can fall. The story of David and Bathsheba reveals how a single impulse can lead to immense consequences. Grounded in his authority, David saw her from his palace and allowed desire to cloud his judgment. A reminder to all of us that we must safeguard our hearts and align our desires with the will of God — and that no position, no power, no reputation protects us from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd yet…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom that broken beginning, God did something no one could have predicted. He redeemed it. The child born of that union — Solomon — would become the wisest king Israel ever knew. And through this line, centuries later, would come Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree stones. Three lives woven together by grace that defies explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout These Stones\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-selected from the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts — shaped by tide and time, carried here by the Creator’s hand. Two stones as different as the people they represent, and as impossible to look away from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDavid — deep charcoal with silver fire\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003emica schist\u003c\/em\u003e, a metamorphic rock dense with muscovite or biotite mica. In direct light it doesn’t just shimmer — it blazes. Powerful, complex, and impossible to ignore. 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