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").
