learning to remember

today is Memorial Day in the States- for most of us it's a cool, 3 day weekend that signifies the official start of the summer weekends we love so much. i know that there is more to it, but we don't seem to make a lot of time to remember [significantly]the things of the past today.

but in my own life, the more i tend to be consumed with the busyness of today and forget what i've learned in the past, the more i tend to get off-track. so i would imagine that as a people, if we push forward with the busy agendas of today, forgetting what ought not to be forgotten from the past, that we will encounter many of the same hard lessons in the future [which could've been avoided if we had only remembered...]

and so today i am trying to learn to remember ... as a citizen, as a son, as a husband, as a father, as a friend, and as a son of the most high

getting [re]started

well i set this blog up last year duing a late night session in africa ... and i'm going to go ahead and start using it now. crystal and i are in louisiana getting ready to return to africa next year, and we can't wait! so i'll be trying to make this thing useful . . . for communication and frinedship and ministry. thanks for joining the ride.