Back to Life!

I’m so happy about this little purple plant!

First of all, Chandler made this beautiful pot for me when he was at Living Word Lutheran School, I think around 7th grade. Second, someone gave us this plant after Chandler died. I’m trying SO hard to keep all these plants alive because each is a special reminder of the love that has been poured out on our family during this time. Horticulture is not my gift, so I even tried something I’d never done — implementing a weekly watering schedule which, by the way, doesn’t work for African violets. So bummed about losing them!

We took the pot to Chandler’s memorial service, and afterward, it got packed up and brought back to the house in a big plastic tub with a lot of other items from the memorial. I didn’t get to the unpacking of the tub for probably two weeks or more after the memorial. I had forgotten the little pot was in there. You guessed it. Dead as a doornail.

Praying for a small miracle, I placed the dried, shriveled up plant in the window by my kitchen sink and began watering it faithfully. That was almost four months ago. Yesterday, I noticed vibrant purple flowers blooming from my very special Chandler pot! I cannot believe that little plant pulled through. It not only survived, it is thriving and more alive and beautiful than ever!

Thriving. More alive and beautiful than ever. That is Chandler right at this moment.