Thursday, March 1, 2012

memories ... or the lack of them!

Does anyone else out there have memory issues?  Granted, I'll be 55 this summer, but still!!  I have friends and classmates that are able to reminisce about things that happened 35 plus years ago, and I do good to remember their names!!  It's so embarrassing and frustrating.

I just learned that a classmate passed away this week.  While I remember the name, and his face, I can't remember much about him.  Thankfully, there are others that are able to remember him and share his life with all of us.

So then I start thinking of my own life and mortality... he was my age!  So many classmates have gone too soon.  But we are now "middle" aged if we live to be 110!!  OLD if we live to be 70!!!  Which makes me think that my memory ain't that bad then!  Haha!

I think of my salvation... of other's salvation that have gone before me.  I hope and I pray that they knew the Lord and that they are sitting at His feet.  I look forward to the day that I'm called Home, but pray that those that I love will come to know Him before I take that journey.

Today will be a day of reflection for me... reflecting on all of the friends that the Lord has truly blessed me with over the years...whether I remember them or not!~I know HE does!

He is my rock ... my fortress and my deliverer... He has my plans for my future... thank you Lord for my life and salvation... even in this time of aging!!

Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.