The Apostle Paul put it this way in Philippians 3:13: “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.” Don’t let what happened in the past control your present. Psalm 102:17 says: “God will respond to the prayer of the destitute he will not despise their plea.” God can be the healer of your damaged memories. He can help us move on from them, and even lead us to healing - if we’ll ask him to. God wants us to know that we don’t have to be paralyzed by our tough memories. Some of you remember a parent who never took the time to listen to you, to play with you, or to just be with you. I suspect that some of you have memories that are anything but tender. Parents, what are you doing to build some tender memories into the life of your family? Sometimes these good memories just happen but most of the time they need to be purposely planned. I also have fond memories of the time I spent with my grandpa before he died. Or the times we’d walk across our back yard in the summer to buy a gallon of root beer from the A&W. Like the time I put my sister’s cat in the dryer (though I’m sure that wasn’t a tender memory for her!). I have many tender memories about growing up. We love telling the story and remembering the details. We had to throw the pizza away because it was so gross. When our pizza finally arrived, we just laughed when we saw it covered with greasy hot dogs! The pizza place probably had to run out to the store to find some hot dogs since I’m sure it wasn’t a very popular request. The girls tried to correct me while I was on the phone but I didn’t listen to them. I told the pizza guy that we wanted sausage on our pizza, but instead of saying “sausage” I said “hot dogs”. Emily and Lydia listened and tried to encourage me as I stumbled through the phone call (I think they were holding their breath, wondering what was going to come out of my mouth). I called Domino’s and tried to place my order in Spanish. Beth was gone so the girls and I decided to have pizza. I have a memory of something that happened when we lived in Mexico. On this Memorial Day weekend, it’s appropriate that we’re talking about how to make memories.
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