What is your earliest memory? How far back does that take you? When was the last time that this memory came to mind? I would imagine that we all have different ages when we first remembered something. Our memories come to us at times triggered by perhaps a song, a photograph, or some words printed or spoken.
February 2nd came and went like every other day. Yet for my family February 2, 2018 was not a normal day. February 2nd marked the third anniversary of my father’s funeral. Yet that did not come to mind for me until February 3rd. I began feeling guilty for not being mindful of that day. Did that diminish my Father’s memory? Would time continue to lessen his life’s journey and impact on me?
Being mindful brings the needs of the day to light. Time does indeed take our finite abilities and absorb and lessen the magnitude of our memories. As emotionally saturated 2/2/18 was for our family, 2/2/21 was not.
God is mindful of the needs of His People. In Jeremiah 1:5 God tells us that before we were in our mother’s womb He knew us. Luke acknowledges that God is ever mindful that He knows the very number of hairs on our heads.
Take your own earliest memory and know that God was there. He never forgets or becomes distracted from His loving care and touch in all of our lives. We are to be mindful as well to the needs of others as God equips us to do.
