Symbols of Memories...
Is it a song, a photograph, a smell or a place? What stirs your memories to events wonderful and to events you would rather not remember? I will speak only of good memories today and small treasures in life in the form of an actual thing and the memory it brings to surface in my thoughts.
Going into the new year of 2011 my employment was cut away. In a couple of months she lost her job, also. This was a year for a vase of many roses delivered so she could enjoy the blossoms and opening buds during the work week. She might even receive a kind comment from a coworker. All of that would bring joy to me. But not this year...no roses and no office for delivery.
Look at the vase in the photo. On the left is one dried red rose and with it one yellow one. This year, there is a yellow rose for the year and a red one to represent all the years before. These roses have a home in the vase of roses from an earlier year. Next year should bring a new vase very, very full of yellow roses. And, there is an office to receive the delivery.
I must pray thanksgiving to our God for the many years and now for her new employment. By next year, I should be re-employed, one way or the other. I also thank God for creating such beauty as roses. These flowers do hold significant places in my memories, whether the yellow one of anniversary or the old Welsh roses from an earlier post.
What you might have of good memories, what you might have of kindness in your heart relived...I pray those thoughts will come to bring you joy.
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