Forget Me Not

As I was flipping through some old photographs of years gone by, I ran across some pictures of these "forget-me-nots." They are some of my favorite flowers. So small and dainty and appropriately named -- because if you don't look closely, you will not see them. They are very small and usually are not noticed by the casual bystander.   Nancy and I were wandering through the woods by the dacha on a warm spring day when we found these flowers hiding in the underbrush of the birch trees.   

I was instantly reminded of what I had read earlier in the day in Deuteronomy when Moses is speaking to the people just before he dies and tells the people all the things that God tells him to say. He tells them to obey the commands, and even when they don't and then want to return, God will be merciful to them. We may break our commitments, forget our promises -- but God never does.

For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forfathers, which he confirmed to them by oath. Deuteronomy 4:31

Many times I feel like a "forget me not" -- small, forsaken, unimportant, forgotton, hidden and overlooked by everyone. But God in his mercy has not forsaken, forgotton or abandonded me. I am beautiful and precious in his sight, just like a "forget me not."

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