Crosses along the road.....

It was a beautiful day to be out driving along our country roads. We were laughing and talking about something one of the kids did and suddenly, there along the side of the road were two white crosses draped in red roses with the names of two people who had died there. What a sobering jolt that was to an otherwise fun time.

I know why they are there. They are there because someone lost a couple of loved ones there. But I have heard that these crosses may be romoved from the roadsides because they are a distraction to those who are driving by and part of me wants to agree with this. Who wants to be reminded every time they drive by a certain tree or rock that someone met their doom there? And I have been told that more wrecks are caused because those who are morbidly fascinated by this kind of stuff slow down and try to read the names of whoever died there rather than watch the roads.

If I lost a loved one that way, I would not need such a memorial to remind me they are gone. That empty chair at the table each day or, those phone calls that will never come again, are enough to remind me that their soul is no longer on this planet.