#SongoftheDay Put Your Hand in the Hand (Ocean)

I am not a religious person--never have been.

My partner, on the other hand, was raised in a very religious household. He isn't religious anymore. But when he moved residences recently, I noticed a family bible in a place of prominence at his new apartment. The bible had belonged to his late father, an important person in their church. It's an elegant bible. The item is deeply meaningful to my partner.

That, I can understand.

When I was a child, my paternal grandmother gave me her bible. This was a meaningful act that meant nothing to me. The interior is now torn and covered in crayon marks. I was too young to understand how she treasured that item.

Many years after my grandmother's death, I looked at the plate inside that wee, worn bible.  It's dated 1936, given to my grandmother when she arrived in Canada from Wales--presented to her by the homeless shelter where her family lived when they moved here.

This item means a great deal to me now, because I realize it was one of my grandmother's very few possessions, as a young person in a new country.

My paternal grandmother died when I was a teenager. I know some fascinating and quite bizarre things about her life, but we were nowhere near as close as we could have been. It saddens me that I'll never be able to ask her questions about her youth, about emigrating to a different country, different continent.

All she ever told me about life in Wales is that her family was very poor, desperately poor.  They came here for a better life.



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