When they can start repeating words or count numbers
... I mean. That's like what defined us in our school years right? The ability to recall facts during examinations to get that A score....
Until ....... they start remembering things you wish they didn't.
Like how you promised to bring their socks back to daycare after forgetting to throw it in the car during the morning rush to get everyone to where they need to be by the clock in time....
And so, you try your best to keep to the promise.
Small things. But in a child's world, some perceptions of time mean the lifetime to them.
A word unfulfilled is one of the greatest destroyers in a person's perspective of relationships
Of cause, not everything that is said can be done. Sometimes it really is out of our control. And along the way of growing up, we learn to let go of things
Bith the Things that dont really matter.. and the things that do. The latter being the harder
After memory and recall: Selective forgetfulness, is the next ability that is a useful trait to have in life.
Its not that we dont remember things,
Its that we make the active decision to not keep bringing up an event in the past.
Although it might have been painful, or sad, or life defining.
Neurons that fire together wire together.
Use it or loose it. So dont use it, and your brain will eventually lose it.
That's why the best way to not remember something is to not only not thonk about it (like trying to not thonk about the elephant in the room). But actively replacing it with something positive.
Choose to remember the good memories,
And the bad ones will have no space to take root.
Let go, let God.
Focus on what really matters,
The inconsequential can become crippling if ruminating on when there are better things to do in life
Think about the possibilities,
The brighter future that life beholds
In the life of Christ that is promised.
Its tough
To let go of the past
Its hard
To apologize and say sorry
But it doesnt have to be
If one considers themselves already dead.
That's what sin is.
The inability to forgive
..and move on
Its a chain, shackles and prison...
When one comes to Christ,
We die. And there is no longer anymore ego or pride. Its okay to say sorry. There's nothing to loose, if all has already been lost.
Or is it.
Victory comes not to the strong in their own eyes. But to those that see weakness in their being, and the need of reliance on God for strength
Sin has no hold,
On the one surrendered to Christ.
For it is Jesus that bears our sin,
On that rugged cross on Calvary
Chilvery
Is dead
And only becomes alive,
When one can die to the self.
To lay down the one's own coat on a puddle for the dame to step over.
Not with hidden intentions to flirt and gain anything transactional or reward later on,
But juat because that's who the man is.
Dead to himself, so that he can live (not for others) but for Chirst himself.
Choose to forget,
The wet muddy coat.
The washing that needs to be done.
Hanging out the laundry to dry,
The folding of clothes
The cabinet of cloth.
There's more important thing to the fabrics of time
Choose to remember,
The happy birthdays,
The celebrations,
The joyous occasions.
For we only have these few years left on earth,
Before an obituary
The end is near,
Even if it is 50 or a thousand years from now.
It doesnt matter
Not that nothing matters,
But few things do.
Choose to remember that which matters.
And leave out whatever doesnt matter.
Its not about accumulating more,
Its about subtracting until the bear essentials is distilled to the essence of life.
Love, joy, peace, hope
Let them win
Over pain, regret, despair and loathing
There will be a time for grieving.
Emotions are what makes us human.
Resilience comes from taking the hit.
Take as much time as you need to heal.
But eventually heal you must.
Dont wallow in pity.
For there's plenty of time for that in the grave. Dont let hell arrive on earth before it is due. Let your bones do it for you, once you have let out the last breath on earth.
For now,
I have no time to think about such things
For I have to get to sweeping the floor.
And vacuuming the dust, which reminds me im not in a virtual simulation.
Have a kid,
And there'll be little space to think about yourself. But if you walk the narrow path, you'll think much much deeper about yourself. And how this world isn't all about you.... nor is is about them.
This existence,
Its meaning
Its propagation
Its continual
Its reason
Its joy
Somethings in life matter.
And because of that
I've forgotten the things that don't
