A pocket full of posies
Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down
What a great old nursery rhyme, first printed in Kate Greenaway's 1881 edition of Mother Goose, and later to become a children's game. I remember playing the game as a child (but not in 1881!!! Mercy me!!!). We would hold hands in a circle and go round and round, chanting/singing the words of the rhyme, then we would all fall down. Not sit, stoop, squat or even curtsy; we would drop to the ground with a thud. Ouch!
We as Christians play a similar game today. We still go round and round, even to the point that sometimes we fall. But in life's game as in the 1881 child's version, when we fall, we must never stay down - we must either be up or getting up. (It's called "Taking Control of Our Falls").
5 comments:
Sis Hopper:
Have read the origin of this little rime? It was played by children during one of the darkest days of Europe.
Yes. WE do have a tendency to play this little game. WE go around and around and arou.. I get dizzy very easily. We do the same thing over and over and just cover the same ground with no movement or effort to make the circle a chain and move into a new area. What is needed is a leader to brake out of the circle.
Just my thought.
Mervi
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I will get my sources together a telll the story of ring around the posies in my blog.
Mervi,
How interesting. Look forward to reading your blog on this subject. Amazing how life fits together in many pieces from times past.
I played this game as a child, too (not in 1881 either!) It was a lot more fun as a child. The falling gets harder on the old bones! But I will arise again.
Pro 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
What a blessing it is to have a God that's willing to help us up when we fall. Thank God we don't have to stay down when we fall.
Carol,
I couldn't agree more.
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