EDUCATION

Uses of Memory

"EDUCATION" pages are full of thought-provoking information designed to appeal to all of your rational, thinking brain.  These pages are primarily for learning, as opposed to some other types of Comfort.Guide pages which are written more for motivation and consolation.  Let these teachings help guide you to the truth that you are noticed, loved and cared for, even though you might not always feel so!

I AM INCLINED to believe that God's chief purpose in giving us memory is to enable us to go back in time, so that if we didn't play those roles right the first time around, we can still have another go at it now! 

We cannot undo our old mistakes or their consequences any more than we can erase old wounds that we have both suffered and inflicted, but through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, and imagining our way back through time, we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

The sad things that happened long ago will always remain part of who we are, just as the glad and gracious things will too, but instead of being a burden of guilt, recrimination and regret that make us constantly stumble as we go, even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead.

It is through memory that we are able to reclaim much of our lives that we have long since written off by finding that in everything that happened to us over the years, God was offering us possibilities of new life and healing which, though we may have missed them at the time, we can still chose to be brought to life and healed all these years later!


Buechner, Fredrick, www.fredrickbuechner.com, published originally in Telling Secrets.

_______________________________________________________________________________

PROMISES ..... short Scriptures to build you up and give you hope!

"Where can I go from your Spirit?  Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast."  

(Psalm 139, NIV)

________________________________________________________________________________


Click HERE to go to the next part of "R"