Waking up this morning, I remembered that a couple of old friends, actually a couple, were coming to visit us today. We had begun our friendship back in the Sixties, in Chattanooga. We had "churched" together, and vacationed together with our respective families, 3 kids for them and 3 for us.
We had continued our friendship over the years we were both in "Choo Choo City", and now in separate locales, they in Franklin, TN, and us here on our Island.
(Then they came)
We met for supper over on Jekyll, where they were staying. For a couple of hours we ate, and thought back over old times, and brought each other up to date on families and friends.
Then we met for lunch at the old hotel to remember some more and talk about things that we had forgotten to say the night before.
A lot of happy memories...
As I read in Joshua this morning, a couple of thoughts came to mind.
Joshua reminds his people of the faithfulness of God as he tells them to remember. Remember the crossing of the Red Sea, the manna in the wilderness.
But there is more to the story, Joshua reminds that group of wandering Jews of the promises of God also. God will do this and do that for them.
Looking back and looking forward.
At our ages, it is easy to look back and talk about what has happened and smile.
Do we look forward with the same smile?
True, we have a lot more time behind us than we will have ahead of us in this life on planet earth, but there are things to anticipate as He continues to guide our lives.
A sunset of life, a pleasant time of remembering, and a time of hope of a life to come.
Let's grasp that also.
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