Forget-Me-Not

These flowers have been a sweet spot of beauty in our perennial flower-bed again this spring.

My first memory of these delicate blue mounds was in Glacier National Park back in 1991. Somehow their name has stuck with me since then.

Forget-me-not

"Okay, I won't!"

This flower, by virtue of its name, also reminds me of a frequent warning in God's word. When God's people forget Him and what He has done, disaster follows.  Psalm 106 is just a brief overview of the many times this happened in the early history of God's people.  

"We have sinned, even as our ancestors did... they gave no thought to Your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled..."

"Yet He saved them for His name's sake, to make His mighty power known."

"...But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for His plan to unfold. In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test. ... They forgot the God who saved them, then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise."

"Therefore the LORD was angry with His people... He gave them into the hands of the nations..."

"Many times He delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin."

It sounds pretty hopeless. We tend to give up on people who reject us over and over. Amazingly, out of His grace and mercy - "out of His great love," God still choses to remember us.

"Yet He took note of their distress when He heard their cry; for their sake He remembered His covenant and out of His great love He relented." 

So when you see this delicate but oddly-named part of God's beautiful creation, what do you want to remember?