take a picture

‘If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white’

(‘Kodachrome’ from the 1973 album ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ by ‘Paul Simon’)

A sobering moment..

                          the ‘snapshot’.

It may be out of context

                      But

                                it sure can tell the story.

  

 - One day my wife ‘puts on’ a very unflattering face and says…

          “This is you…sleeping”       

          Of course I said ‘you must be thinking of someone else’.

                                      

Well, I was dozing one evening…and my cell phone goes off waking me.

  Hmmm,

it is a picture message…

   from my loving wife..

          There I was..

                      Captured as in the old kodachrome..

 Kicked back and conked out in the ‘lounge’ chair

                             Looking like an old balding, dead man…

                                  mouth open….

                                                      head to one side

                                      I most certainly didn’t hear anyone ‘say cheese’!

                           “See? “

                                       (smiling, waves her little camera phone from across the room, calling me old ‘mr.fartypants’)

The rock n roll days of the ‘80s never looked so far away.

 

Not a pretty picture.

                          and you never know Who is taking one…

Or when.

                 Like some of the ‘pictures’ God may show us one day… of ourselves

         Maybe not the ones while we were awake..

                                        Putting on the ‘church’..

But

  while we were ‘dreaming’

        Sometimes in Life…

                        like the Savior Jesus the Christ…

                                                ‘The Truth’..Isn’t always what you want to know,

        but it is what you need.

Today..

Two contenders I consider for first place in knowing a ‘crippled’ walk with Jesus

               are ‘remembering’…

                                                and ‘forgetting’. 

       

                         -  ‘We forget to remember …’

                                                      ‘ remember to forget’  -

By His Grace, Life is a ‘breath’ of given and give.

                Regardless of what you have been ‘given’,

                           It was His to ‘give’ in the first place.

Right?

Genesis 2

7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

We forget to remember..

John 8

⁹ At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰ Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

                                     To remember to forget.

                                                              ¹¹ “No one, sir,” she said.
                                                                               “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

We forget to remember..

Matthew 3

⁹ And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham

                           To remember to forget.

                                              Matthew 7
 ¹ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ² For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

We forget to remember..

John 16

 ³³ “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” 

To remember to forget

Luke 23

³⁴ Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”^[        

as we approach a day we have set aside to celebrate..

                Today
                                Take a picture…
        So maybe when you are ‘dreaming’.. you won’t forget to remember
 ⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray:
   “‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
¹⁰ your kingdom come,
your will be done
  on earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us today our daily bread.                       
                     To remember to forget

¹² Forgive us our debts,
   as we also have forgiven our debtors

In my short life,

I have found that if I come for the Answer

                                     The One for my ‘mystery’

                        One

                                that really addresses my need..

                          -It is all in how I ask the question.-

Mark 10
¹⁷ As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”