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A People Who Easily Forget
I’m reading M is for Mama and a fact she said has really stuck out to me. It keeps rolling around in my mind, and honestly, it’s kind of hard to fathom. When she was first starting her blog, she made a commitment to write 5 times a week, honing her voice and her craft along the way. She used that time to find her purpose and came out of that experience a stronger writer… leading her to eventually publish the book that I’m now reading. She remembered the struggle at that time, but she grew so much. Through that story, she both recognized her beginnings and how God had brought her through.
It’s funny how – in hindsight – how time just slips away. At the moment, it feels like life is such a fight to make it through. Especially as a teacher, every single moment of my day is portioned out. 2 minutes is a huge amount of time, enough for an exit ticket or a quick bathroom break (#ifykyk). But, through the flight of time, the big goals we have slip through our fingers and we look around wondering where it all went.
I want the big things to stay big in my life. The priorities that I have to be so front and center that there is no question about what I am about, what I stand for, and where my focus is.
Remembering to Realign Our Priorities
I use the Passionate Penny Pincher (PPP) Planner which includes a reading plan that is currently going through the Psalms. (But I just created my own planner you can download on Etsy here or at our shop.) Psalm 78 is a maskil, a musical term for a teaching psalm. This psalm instructs the current generation to tell the ancient stories of Moses and the Israelites.
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The psalm starts out: “Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from old, things that we have heard and known that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done” (Ps. 78:1-4).
By remembering the past and retelling it, the Israelites learn about what makes them a people and reminds them of where their focus should be now. The story becomes a testimony that reorients their priorities. The outcome of this ‘remembering’ is that their children “should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments” (Ps. 78:7). The remembering leads to right living.
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We also have an opportunity to remember and consequently live rightly. We are invited into the retelling of the past – of both the gospel and the testimony of our lives – in order to remind ourselves and our children of the rights paths to walk on.
Pause today, and remember. Tell the story again.
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