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Lament to Praise

Several legends surround the naming of the beautiful five-petaled flower the Forget-Me-Not. Among those stories is one from a German legend. According to the story, as God named all the plants He’d created, one little flower worried that it would be overlooked. So the flower called out “Forget-me-not, O Lord.’ And that’s the name God gave to it.Though this is only a story, the Forget-Me-Not has become a symbol of love and remembrance. Yet all of us have experienced what i