Tag: memories

  • Memories in Light and Dark

    Memories in Light and Dark

    Today I am thankful for Facebook’s memories feature. I started my day with the memory of finding this photo, taken on the day I learned Audrey was cancer-free. I was, and am still, so grateful I actually have a photo of that day.

    This picture is one of my reminders that God answers prayers, and that doctors and nurses and medicine are one of the ways God heals. It’s also a reminder that just as Audrey curled up to sleep in my lap, I can curl up to safely and securely sleep in my Father’s lap – because whatever is going on, He’s got it.

    I accidentally took two screenshots of the memory, and I actually like that one is light and one is dark. I didn’t know it when this picture was snapped, but the darkness – the cancer – was already gone.

    Isn’t that how darkness often is? We’re cowering in it or feeling stuck in it, and actually our healing or our freedom is already there and we don’t yet grasp it. We sometimes have no idea, in those darkest of moments, how free we are really are, how free we can be, or how free we are going to be.

  • Silly List Game

    I hate these things and I love these things. Sometimes they make me feel silly, sometimes they make me feel vulnerable and sometimes I just think they’re dumb. Is this really a good use of time? No. Well, maybe…in the sense that they do always take me on a pleasant little walk down memory lane.

    Top Three, Songs that take you back to a specific time

    • Two Princes
    • The Rain King
    • Friends in Low Places

    Top Three, Childhood Crushes

    • Michael J. Fox, or more specifically Alex P. Keaton
    • Johnny Depp
    • And, basically, every boy in every John Hughes film.

    Top Three, Younger You Fashion Horrors

    • long johns under cutoff jeans
    • jacket with fringe
    • my PE uniforms

    Top Three, Remember Where You Were

    • Challenger explosion
    • 9/11
    • OJ verdict

    Top Three, Sports

    • I love the Olympics, and particularly learning the stories of Olympians from all around the world.
    • I no longer plan meal time and bed time and family life around sports, and the tone in my house is no longer determined by some team of people losing or winning.
    • To televised sports, I say: Bye Felicia.

    Top Three, Books that changed my thinking

    • The Great House of God by Max Lucado
    • Open Heart by Elie Wiesel
    • Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer

    Top Three, Music go-tos

    • Michael Jackson
    • Elton John
    • Dave Matthews Band

    Top Three, Movies you’ll stop on and watch even though it’s with commercials

    • Dirty Dancing
    • Smokey and the Bandit
    • 27 Dresses
    • Sixteen Candles

    Yes, I know that’s four, and there are probably fourteen others.

    Top Three, Go-To Late Night Snack

    • spoonful of creamy peanut butter (and I sometimes double dip)
    • donuts
    • cold Hershey bar

    Top Three, Sensory Comfort

    • smell of goodies baking
    • feel of thick fuzzy socks on cold Saturdays at home
    • sound of my children laughing