In Memoriam
When I was a child—
We called it Decoration Day, it was a day for remembrance. Iris and peonies were part of Decoration Day because they were the flowers that bloomed at that time.
The flower on the left is a rose not a peony, but the one on the right is one of my mother-in-law's purple iris.
My in-laws always remembered, and took flowers to decorate the graves on Memorial Day. They didn't honor soldiers only, but also family members.
Memorial Day was a day set aside in 1868 after the end of the Civil War. Yet from Cain versus Abel and onward there have been countless conflicts on many continents.
We live in a perverse world. The majority of humanity wants to live lives of freedom to live and love and raise their families. To live a 'happily ever after' life.
Then there are the small minority that know how you should live, and they will not only tell you how to live, but make sure you live that way. And they'll be mean as fire to make you do what they want you to do.
The oxymoron to this is, the mean as fire folks point fingers at 'Christians' and their code of morality as being tyrants, but the finger pointers are the real culprits.
If you take away the law then you institute chaos and anarchy. There is less peace, more strife, and a bitter world filled with war.
The 'Ten Commandments'The ten words to live by...they tell us how to be right with God, the Father, they tell us how to be right with our fellow human beings. Those commandments are peaceable and from God. Society and individuals need those words as guidelines.
People could live in peace if each of us honestly followed God's pattern as summed up in Mark 12:28-31: What commandment is the first of all? 29) Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: 30) and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. 31) The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
