That is a question my mom loves to ask us. She keeps track
of things that are exciting or require prayer or both in her devotional book.
So when she reads her devotions for this year – she also relives a host of
other years in the process.
So while we are waiting for mom to be admitted to the
hospital @ 6:00 AM Tuesday morning, mom asks, “Does anybody know what we were
doing 3 years ago today?”
No one does – but mom knows – it was recorded in her
devotional.
March 5, 2010 – my mom, sister, her sister-in-law and her mother-in-law
went shopping for dresses for my sister’s wedding.
March 5, 2013 – my mom has surgery for breast cancer.
Everything is good now and we are hopefully waiting the pathology reports.
I’ve been thinking about that record my mom has. It’s very
encouraging. It’s a reminder of God’s faithfulness in the past. A source of
hope for the future. Like milestones with Jesus, a reminder that He is on the
throne and still listening to our prayers.
There are also dates in that devotional that mark the deaths
of loved ones – of things that didn’t turn out as we had expected. But nothing
is a surprise to God. He knows how it will work out – He needs us to trust Him
with the outcome no matter what.
I’m thinking of starting to record things in my devotional –
so that each year I can remember all that God has been with me through.
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