Love and Memories
I’ve been reading this Summer… a lot. The girls have to read at least 30 minutes per day, and I have been reading with them. I have also been staying up with Eric as he works into the wee hours of the morning, and most often I read then as well. Needless to say I’ve read quite a few books in the past 2 months.
But something I read tonight in one of these books struck a chord with me, and I thought I’d share it. It is in response to a question about how a place that the characters are visiting is making them feel – giving them a completeness, a wholeness, a rightness to the world that they have never known.
“There is a love here that is rarely found on earth. Perhaps in families, certainly between a husband and wife on occasion, but almost never in the world at large. Love governs everything here. Everything. Love and the continually practiced presence of the Most High.
“Yeseph explained it once to me. He said that the Most High is indeed ever-present with his creation, with us. But we often lose sight of him – we fall away from him unless we practice his presence. By that he meant we must keep him with us in our thoughts and deeds, lest we forget.
“For it is not the One who forgets us, but we forget him. It is how we are made, a defect perhaps, but one that makes belief necessary. And belief is the Most High’s greatest gift. So even there he has rescued us.”
“Rescues us from ourselves. I see. Is it love that transforms even the common things – the sunrise yonder, for one – into such works of beauty? Is it love that makes me feel as if all my life until now was a life lived in shadow?”
“Oh, yes! Love, and the knowledge of the Most High”
“But I know very little of the Most High. How can it be that I feel as I do?”
“In your heart of hearts you know him. Durwin used to say that all men were born with the knowledge of the Most High in their hearts. The trick is to spend more time remembering, and less time forgetting what we already know.”
“From now on I will spend all my time remembering.”
This is an excerpt from “The Sword and the Flame” by Stephen Lawhead. It’s the third book in the Dragon King Trilogy.
I think that it is quite applicable to our lives as well.
We do often lose sight of God in the busyness of our day-to-day lives. We do often forget Him as we go along through life. The trick, it seems, is to spend more time remembering.
How is your memory today?
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