Comments on: Mustard Seed Jewelry

By: Virginia Farnham

Virginia Farnham — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:59:23 +0000

I don’t remember who it was, but I do remember getting a small charm bracelet when I was very young in Church… It was lost long ago. I do plan on either getting or making myself another charm to put on my Faith Bracelet.

I found that it is a wonderful way to minister without “Bible thumping” those who are curious about my Faith.

hmm… now to find a way to make some!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:47:01 +0000

When I was a young girl my mother and father gave me and all of my sisters Bibles with a mustard seed in a little glass ball attached with a chain…I am Baptist and to us it’s a show of faith.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:49:56 +0000

I had a bracelet with a charm on it just like the one in the photo – brings back memories of that bracelet! It’s probably somewhere in my Mom’s basement. I’ll have to go look for it this Christmas! We just covered the Luke passage about the mustard seed in my Bible study, and I used the mustard seeds from my pantry to show my students. Cool timing!

By: commonweeder

commonweeder — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:30:10 +0000

My family wasn’t religious, but we kids were sent to a Lutheran sunday school where they even got Norman Vincent Peale to come and make a speech (or maybe they took us to a speech) and he told the story of a man who was depressed and in dire financial straits when the famous minister Dr. Peale quoted this verse to him. The man had a Eureka! moment and invented the mustard seed pendants – and became solvent, if not rich. There is a real American/religion story for you. This would have been in the mid-1950s. Dr. Peale is the author of The Power of Postive Thinking and many other books.

By: blackswampgirl Kim

blackswampgirl Kim — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:07:06 +0000

Interesting… I haven’t heard of this at all, and I grew up pretty strict Catholic. I’ll have to ask my Mom if she’s ever heard of it–if she has, and I hadn’t, it might lend credence to Ilona’s thought that it might just be before our time.

By: Carol, May Dreams Gardens

Carol, May Dreams Gardens — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:26:05 +0000

I believe it is a faith-based symbol, even today. If someone said they had a mustard-seed necklace, I would know the reason why.

By: Ilona

Ilona — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:25 +0000

I had mustard seed jewelry. My grandfather was a minister and he used to send them to his granddaughters- I had more than one piece of jewelry of this type:) Mostly I remember the necklace which is what you have illustrated.

I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of this, since it was a bit before your time: not much of it from mid-sixties after….

I also had a ten commandments charm bracelet- with each of the commandments engraved on a goldtone metal disk and attached to a gold color link bracelet.