A question of religion and humans...
Mum and Dad are back from France. Among other more fun pressies, which I shall detail later, Mum decided to bring back a little bottle of water from Lourdes - one each for Rhys and I. I know that Mum still considers herself Catholic, but she disagrees with a lot of the Catholic views and won't talk about what she does and doesn't believe. I know that Our Lady of Lourdes is important to her because I remember her telling me about her as a child and she made a point of buying me one of those little figure things of her.
Mum said that even though she knows Rhys and I aren't religious, she wanted us to have this water and thought we could keep it in our houses or something. I don't understand. It doesn't hold any special meaning or value for me other than that Mum gave it to me and it means something to her. I can understand if she wants one herself since she attaches religious value to it, but she knows that I don't so why would she want me to have it? I don't think that she believes that I'm any more blessed or protected because I have some religious token, and I can't think of any other reason that it would be important to her that I have this little bottle of water.