MY WORD FOR JULY 13TH IS MEMORIES!

My word for July 13^th is MEMORY

Our whole family is at the lake to watch the girls dance in the Miss Arkansas pageant.  Their dance teacher provides all the chorography, so for the past two years she has had her dancers dance.  My 7-year-old niece danced last night with

Miss Arkansas.  When we got back to the house my niece wanted to sleep with me, so of course I agreed to her wishes.  She would not go to bed; she talked and talked and talked.  She kept saying I am picturing this.  I finally said, “Picture yourself asleep.”  Off to sleep we went.  I was awakened at 2:00 am with my niece pulling my silky blanket out from under me and staring at me in the face.  I then realized that she was sleepwalking, talk about crazy.  She had also wet the bed.  Oh my! Thirty minutes later we had everything cleaned up and back in bed with a pull-up on.  Finally back to sleep.  This morning I was awakened at 7:00am with a baby doll staring me in the face with a little big toothed girl staring back at me.  We all just laughed.  Everything is a memory in the making. 

Memories, all of us have them.  Some may be bad, some may be good, and some may be funny.  No matter what the memory, it changes us somehow someway.  There is a lesson in every memory.  My lesson from last night is never to sleep with a small child without a pull up.  Ha Ha!  Some memories we would love not to remember, we would love to forget, but memories are here for a reason. We need to look at every memory as a learned lesson good or bad. 

In the bible Luke said Mary preserved certain information.  She treasured up everything that was said and done.  Mary wanted to have preserved memories of all happenings.  She treasured up the shephards word about the verification of the wonderful Child’s birth in Bethlehem.  She also had vivid memories of when she and Joseph accidently left Jesus at the age of 12.  When they returned they found Him visiting with priests.  Mary remembered all memories of Jesus. She treasured up all memories in her heart. 

When our minds wander back in time find the memoires that ease you.  Like Mary treasure up those good memories.  Thank God for the wonderful memories that he lets you see.  Allow memories to lift you not bury you. 

Luke 2:19 ESV

But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 

Dear God thank You for giving us experiences that we want to treasure and remember.  Our memories make us the people that we are today.  We know that every memory teaches us something whether good or bad.  During this year of 2012 help us in making wonderful memories.