Lesson(s) Learned

Let me ask you a question I’ve been asking myself lately. What do you wake up in the morning for? No, seriously, let’s start here. What keeps you waking up in the morning, every morning? There’s got to be something. If there wasn’t, then you wouldn’t keep doing it. Right? Now, I’m not trying to make light of life. I recognize it’s a gift. It comes straight from God down to us. He controls our coming and going. According to Psalm, He’s acquainted with even our rising and down-sitting. When you get right down to it, there’s something that propels all of us to doing more than just mere breathing. There’s something inside of all of us that calls us, beckons us, really, to truly live. If you are anything like me, there are things in your life that make you feel more alive. Something inside of you feels more full, vibrant, and inspired when you do those things. (For me, those things are writing, reading, thinking/dreaming how the world can be a better place and what I...

The title of this blog posting, “Never Forget” in itself is hilarious to me. If you know anything about me, you know that I not only have the name of a woman born in the 1920s, but I also have the memory of one, too. Sincerely, I do. As much as I try to remember, I forget things all the time. Case in point: At one point, I downloaded an app on my phone that is supposed to help enhance your memory through the playing of strategic games. Only I forgot to play the games for a while. And then, once my phone went through a software download (or something) and I had to put the app back on my phone, I forgot the name of the memory app. #gofigure Now, before you go casting stones or try giving me helpful hints to increasing memory, I only tell you all of that to tell you this: I’ve been thinking about it lately, and my mind/memory is a lot like our experiences as Christians. We tend to forget TONS about what God has done for us in the past, and we especially fail to remember Who God i...