POPPIES ARE PRETTY SPECIAL

Pen and watercolor Art Journaling

Poppies are beautiful flowers symbolic of death, life and remembrance.  Poppies can lay dormant for years and have the ability to resurface in huge numbers.  After the war left hundred of soldiers laying dead in the field, red poppies surfaced, thus the history of its symbolism.

Much like the poppies, our lives on earth symbolizes the same.  In the sorrow of death, our loved ones remembers us only through happy times.  We live in their hearts forever and the beauty of what we are remembered about is what lives.  Maybe we have touched certain people in different ways.

But to dig further, when Jesus left us to go back home to our Father in heaven, He left us a remembrance like a poppy, but in the form of a guide, to be with us in remembrance of Him and what He stood for.   Unlike the poppy which will eventually die, the Holy Spirit lives and thrives inside of us, constantly guiding us through life to remember that Jesus is ever present in our hearts and in our lives. 

So whenever you see a poppy, make it remind you of the Holy Spirit who lives in you in remembrance of the greatest Man who ever lived!

Until my next rant... LOVE ONE ANOTHER!