{"id":782,"date":"2009-09-08T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2009-09-08T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T03:42:54","slug":"the-senses-september-9-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/the-senses-september-9-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senses, September 8 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Anna

Anna smelling a flower<\/p><\/div>\n

Precious is the child who breathes in the sweet scent of God’s Creation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Have you ever walked into\u00a0a friend or relative’s\u00a0home\u00a0and smelled homemade bread baking?\u00a0 Where does that smell take you?\u00a0 Does it take you back to when you were 6 years old at Grandma’s house?\u00a0 Have you ever noticed a perfume or cologne a stranger was wearing and went\u00a0 straight back to an old boyfriend or a friend from long ago who used that same scent?\u00a0 Does the smell of a baking cake in the oven take you back to all the birthday parties in your home when you were a child?\u00a0 Does the smell of burning firewood on a chilly winter evening outside take you to warm and cozy memory from years ago snuggled up by the fire with your Mom holding you close?<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how our senses can trigger our brains to memories that at that moment become so vivid but before that were completely forgotten.\u00a0 It’s not only smells for me it’s songs.\u00a0 Some songs when I hear them I literally go back to when I was 5 years old.\u00a0 Others send me back to my teen years with friends.\u00a0 When I hear the Phantom of the Opera’s \u00a0All I ask of You, I am in my new husband’s arms dancing our 1st dance at our wedding reception.\u00a0 Oh the power of Church music.\u00a0 How Great Thou Art sends me back to my Grandfather’s funeral and all the pain of missing him and being surrounded by family. Come Holy Spirit takes me back to 8th grade when I made my confirmation.\u00a0 Of course Silent Night reminds me of every Christmas Eve I ever had.<\/p>\n

It’s as though our minds just store everything, even though most of the time we can barely remember someone else’s name.\u00a0 Yet when you catch a scent drifting in the air or hear a song suddenly the memories all come flooding back to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It makes me wonder what will my children remember?\u00a0Will the smell of those roses from the garden be brought back to her mind\u00a0when Anna smells her wedding bouquet on her wedding day?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What scents in our lives are that powerful, hopefully it won’t be the smell of burnt toast.\u00a0 Maybe the sweet breads I love to bake.\u00a0 Probably their grandma’s perfume.\u00a0 The songs, I hope the ones we dance to in the living room when we get a little crazy like\u00a0 I like to Move it and Tim McGraw. My children already have memories of hearing Be Not Afraid and On Eagles Wings from when\u00a0they were little because I sang it to them as babies.\u00a0 The songs they listen to with their friends now will be their “good time oldies” one day and take them back to childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We should\u00a0thank God that He created us with the ability to remember without even trying.\u00a0 To transcend us to another time and place. To be able to embrace for that moment and appreciate where we have been, who we have loved and what we have experienced in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Precious is the child who breathes in the sweet scent of God’s Creation. \u00a0Have you ever walked into\u00a0a friend or relative’s\u00a0home\u00a0and smelled homemade bread baking?\u00a0 Where does that smell take you?\u00a0 Does it take you back to when you were 6 years old at Grandma’s house?\u00a0 Have you ever noticed a perfume or cologne a stranger was wearing and went\u00a0 straight back to an old boyfriend or a friend from long ago who used that same scent?\u00a0 Does the smell of a baking cake in the oven take you back to all the birthday parties in your home when you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,174,194,193,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}