Epilogue: Keep Remembering

I love Valentine’s Day. I've always enjoyed the concept of love and showing care and affection purposefully. Love should be celebrated everyday but it’s good to set a day aside.

The series tia’s memoirs: Love’s progression is an amazing journey in retrospect! Wow, it really takes me back to some really critical times. God is truly awesome beyond compare. His Word is sure; His promises last forever. What He said in the beginning stands now and is set for the future!

Sharing this series has been a great reminder of His Love, His desire to see us fulfilled in the dreams and desires of our hearts. So many times I go without remembering where I’ve come from. I thank God for this opportunity to remember and to show gratitude.

Sharing this series has also given me a greater appreciation for what God has given me over these last 3 years: the husband that I desired for year upon year. As many can attest to, it is rather easy to forget.

I have also been rather challenged with the sharing of these intimate memories. Those deep desires of my heart truly set a high standard that is extremely difficult to meet in the actual experience of marriage. In a way, these many words provide a state that I wish to attain, an appreciation for my spouse that I wish to grasp hold to. Life really gets in the way and again it is easy to forget those past feelings and longings when you have new challenges to face.

Keeping a record of your dreams, your prayers, your deepest desires and wants can be very fulfilling especially when you see them coming to pass one by one. You will be pleasantly surprised that some things you declared in the past are actually becoming so in your life.

If you think about it, remembering is what God called us to do. The children of Israel, just delivered from bondage in Egypt, had been on their journey to the promised land, the promise that they had hoped on for a very long time. Finally they were on their way to receive the promise but along the way they faced challenges and began to murmur and complain, willing even to return to bondage! Time and time again they were implored to remember where they came from and what God had done for them (See the Book of Exodus).

So as I spend the day listening to my old love song favorites and dancing around the house with my chocolates and my men, I’ll also be remembering.

Let’s keep remembering and live life with gratitude.

Lyrics by tia 2012

02/14/12 6:50-7:05am