Has there ever been a symbol that occurs repeatedly throughout your life, reflecting something important to you?

In the book, The Glory Field, many motifs transpire throughout the tale, which have meanings relating back to the characters. But sometime those motifs mirror in your own life story. A symbol relating back to my own would be the idea of: new earth, dirt, and harvesting. To me, this also means starting over and building up a new life. Similar to what the generations throughout the years had to do in the Glory Field. 

After we moved, we began building a new house. A new life. I think that relates to lives the characters had to grow from the soil in the harvest. The motif of new earth, and building again is really an important symbol, that appears in the lives of many who have ever hoped for a better future