Memory's Gifts To Us

Memory helps us with such concerns as "Where are my keys?" Which street should I take to reach the place I need to go? What is the procedure I need to add new writing to my Blog?.

Is our "mind's eye" a helpmate to our memory? Is it our mind that collects our memories and stores those? And for what purpose? Are saved memories a gift, in part, to provide us company when we are older? Often, from saved memories, we gain pertinet information that we want to know or need.

A memory may remind us of unpleasant words we exchanged with another person. Such a memory may guide us to be, in the day ahead, the person we'd rather be. We always have the choice to choose kindness to guide us in our days.

Memory, in our youthful years, may give us different gifts than it gives us in our older years. Yet, memory, in its "singular" form, if our health allows, remains at hand in our older years, too, and supports us.

Memory, for us older ones, on occasion, may delve into the archives of its "collected memories" and bring again a "snippet" of some incident from our past. For a very short time, we may seem to "be with" a family member, and relive some happening in earlier life. Often such a memory is a pleasant one. Sometmes, an incident is one we'd rather forget.

If we had the choice, we mght think it would be better to have only pleasant life experiences. Even in nature, challenges come to every life and are needed. A seed must break from its shell to grow. Memory reminds me that years back I read that a butterfly, helped from its cocoon, could not fly. A struggle appeared needed to strengten the creature's wings.

I have had the joy, since childhood, to stay close to nature and to learn from what I can observe Memory holds fast for me the belief that the Creator is impartial, and provides care for every life.

For its benefit, every life, from the life within a seed that must break open its shell to grow, to us human folk, will have challenge. Each life will also have an equal portion of God's care. God creates life to grow and to add someting of good to life.

I'm grateful that God created memory and planned that when memory lessens, all kinds of lives in nature will be found at hand to bring us pleasure, but also, from their example, to teach us about life and the loving Creator of all.
marylee manson armour
April 18,2007 Revised April 19,2007