BUTTONS!

Grandmother Bouterse had the neatest and biggest button collection,I think I have ever seen!I've got most of them in a big fruitcake size cake tin, and then, the ones I really use alot,I keep in an oval Droste's Chocolate tin.She had butons for everything.I would ask her why she had so many buttons and she would tell me that they were a reminder to her to take care of something..........Puzzled,I would ask what that was? She would say,that maybe she was to go "button" up a wound with a friend,or to "button" up some harsh words that had been spoken, because God wouldn't hear her prayers until she did! She'd take out a bright red button and that one would remind her to give me a big kiss!
I liked those best!
Oh yes,this lady had lots of buttons to remind her of things, but the best things she had as a reminder,was the word of God, and you can't beat that!
Becky