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Advent Monday, week 2: It's good to Remember

The second week of Advent:
It's Monday morning...it's December 7...Pearl Harbor Day.
Time moves on and away from history.  I wasn't alive then, and probably every person reading this was not alive.  It was our parents or grandparents who lived through it and remembered what was happening in their lives that day.
Yet we all have memories of those kinds of days:
I remember the day John F Kennedy was assassinated.
I remember the morning of 9/11.
While these were tragic, other dates I remember were not:
I remember June 12, 1971 - the day Linda and I got married.
I remember each of my children's births, and remember three of my kid's weddings.

It's good to remember...Psalm 143:5
5  I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

"If you take an experience and attach to it a strong emotion, you'll never forget it.".

Deuteronomy 32:3-7
3  I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4  He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he...
7  Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

Here's the point...REMEMBER...some things have not been so good; but a lot of things have been great.  We remember so that we can learn the lessons of history, and rejoice in the things God has done, and grow in our hope for the future.

Psalm 77:11
11  I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

It is good to Remember all that has happened in our lives, and to us...and go back to worship the Lord for where and what he has brought us through.

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