We took a trip down Memory Lane on Saturday. We began the day reconnecting with friends from our Minnesota years. They presently live in New Hampshire and were on their way to Connecticut for the weekend; we met up at the Cracker Barrel in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Yes, there are Cracker Barrels in New England!
After breakfast we drove down to the Connecticut shoreline where we once lived, wondering what might have changed in the twenty years since we lived there. As it turns out, not much has changed. There are a few differences, with some different merchants occupying shop buildings and different restaurants in the buildings where we once ate, but overall, things looked much as we remembered. We did notice one very significant difference. The house where we once lived looks quite different than when we lived there.
When we lived on Pheasant Run Drive in Gales Ferry, our house was avocado green with brown shutters. It was an awful color for a house! Thankfully, in recent years that avocado green has been replaced with a cream-colored vinyl siding. Definitely an improvement!
We have made many wonderful new memories on our journey around the country. And we have had numerous opportunities to call other memories to mind as we have been to places where we once lived or traveled, and as we have had opportunities to spend time with some friends from days gone by.
Memories are precious treasures, not only for the joy that comes as we recall people and places and event, but because they remind us of the faithfulness of God.
Whether you are traveling around the country or not, memories - of good times and bad - are opportunities to remember not only people and places and events, but to remember circumstances and lessons learned. To remember that through it all, God has been faithful. That He does not leave us or forsake us. And to be confident that because He has always been faithful, and He has always been there, and He has always been trustworthy, and He always keeps His word, He will continue to do and to be all those things.
And that's something worth remembering!
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying 'Thus far the LORD has helped us.'" (1 Samuel 7:12 NASB)
"This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The LORD's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 NASB)
No comments:
Post a Comment