Reminder Close to Me

If you run into me on the street, I look like a somewhat average teenage girl--probably one on the "artsy" side, but average nonetheless.  You might notice the two bracelets that I have recently been wearing on my left wrist, but probably wouldn't think anything of them.  They look normal enough.  However, they hold a deeper meaning to me that you would never get from passing me on the street.

The first bracelet is a Lokai Bracelet.  I got it as a gift and was a bit taken aback by the message it held with it--"find your balance"--thinking that it might be something spiritual, which as a Christian, I feel I need to be careful with.  However, I researched the bracelet, and found this description:

"Each lokai is infused with elements from the highest and lowest points on Earth. The bracelet’s white bead carries water from Mt. Everest, and its black bead contains mud from the Dead Sea. These extreme elements are a reminder to the wearer to live a balanced life – staying humble during life’s peaks and hopeful during its lows."

(Taken from the Lokai Bracelet website)

I liked the concept of it.  After an emotional roller coaster of a senior year, I found the highs and lows of life to be true, and as someone who is often filled with anxiety and worrying, the bracelet became a reminder to me that there are highs, lows, and days in between, but that God is with me through it all.  I like that reminder close to me, on my wrist.

The other bracelet is one that I made out of that friendship bracelet string that we all used forever ago to make bracelets for one another.  If you read my previous posts, you know that I recently was in The Wizard of Oz.  This bracelet is yellowish orange to represent the yellow brick road, and the beads represent the friends Dorothy makes along the way--Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion.  However, the bracelet to me signifies so much more than that.  It represents the yellow brick road I'm travelling--life--and serves as a reminder that I never travel alone on the road of life, but that I have so many friends that I will always carry with me in my heart.  I like that reminder close to me, on my wrist.

I'm not the type of person to get a tattoo, but I imagine that they are to their owners as my bracelets are to me--reminders that I can easily see that emphasize the life I'm blessed with living, the people I'm blessed to have beside me, and the God I'm blessed to serve.