Life seems to go by so fast. I feel like I just entered college, and I’m now sitting in an office chair at a desk job after having graduated last spring. I remember two of my brothers in the hospital as babies, and now they are six and twelve. My “baby” sister is in Argentina as a 17-year-old doing ministry. My freshmen pledges are two-year members now and are running the social club I started three years ago. I remember the house I grew up in, and some of the ridiculously awesome (and just ridiculous) stories and life videos of that house and the yard. I remember my elementary schools, and even my public school kindergarten holds memories in my brain. I have memories of pastors from years ago and youth group events.
Of all these years and memory videos playing at fast-forward pace through my head, I have still snapshots, too. Still pictures of the front of my house. The look on my mom’s face as she looked at all her kids in the hospital when the youngest was born. Pictures of Christmas trees, presents, and family around the nativity telling the story of the Son’s birth. Pictures of brothers cuddled under blankets over the heating vents to get warm. Looks of siblings as I tease them about various things. Pictures of friends and family serving and showing Father’s love to those around them.
Moments, snapshots and moving memories, can last forever. You just have to remember to take them in your brain. Someday, memories may be all you will have left. If you move so quickly you forget to take brain videos and pictures, you go without those memories for the rest of your life. You never know when your memory opportunities will cease, both for you and those around you. You may need memories of them, and they may need memories of you.
Take memory videos and pictures, soak in moments, and put smiles on faces around you. You never know when you will need them.
