Resurrection:
(Noun)
- a supposed act or instance of a dead person coming back to life
- belief in the possibility of this as part of a religious or mystical system
- the condition of those who have risen from the dead: we shall all live in the resurrection
- the revival of something: a resurrection of an old story
When I was a little girl living in California, my mother used to have this plant called a Resurrection Plant. To me it looked like a baby tumble weed and I was very confused as to why she kept it in her closet. One day, she pulled the plant out and put it in a small dish of water. Slowly as it absorbed water it uncurled and laid completely flat. A little while longer it went from a dull brown to a dull green. More time passed and you would never have recognized it from the dead looking thing it had been hours before.
My mother explained that she kept the plant in her closet as a reminder. A reminder that sometimes things in life can look bleak, dry and terrible and it can be that way for a long time. And just when all hope seems lost, it can rain. When the sweet relief of rain comes, it might take a while to uncurl from that dry and terrible mess, but when you do it is hard to believe you were ever in that situation. I am a long way away from that little girl I used to be. It is almost full blown winter and my husband brought in my aloe plant. It looks terrible. He asked me if I was going to revive it once again, because every year I seem to forget it, until it is too cold and wet for cactus and it looks like it is going to turn into slime. Then every year I seem to bring it back to life bigger and healthier than it was the year before. It is almost my own personal resurrection plant. Except possibly slimier than a Rose of Jericho. That leave me to one question.
Do you believe in resurrection?
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