Memories

I came north to Massachusetts a few days ago to the place of many memories. I love my life in Myrtle Beach and I'm getting to create many great memories there, but my memory bank is filled with memories from relationships and circumstances here. I had the honor of presiding at the memorial service of a close friend on Saturday. The picture today was taken in Florida in March on Del Ray Beach. The legs and feet belong to Allen and Cheryl Cornell. Allen was a photographer and on their honeymoon he took a picture like this one. When I went to Florida ti be with them in March he knew he was ill and dying and wanted a picture taken of their feet together like the one on their honeymoon to represent the journey they had travelled together walking through life side by side. He wanted somehow to put the two pictures together in a frame as a symbol of their life together.

One moment after another, the time here has been a remembrance of the journey my feet have walked side by side with so many friends and family members. God has given me many great companions on my path, and placed so many great opportunities in front of me to share with people. I have had late bed times here in Massachusetts because I have been with friends remembering all those memories. Blessings abound in the past and they make me who I am. I carry them with me not to sit and admire them, although that is a treat once in awhile, but because they are the platform I stand on today as I make my choices in life. The good ones I seek to repeat, the bad ones I seek to learn from, but they all make up the platform I stand on today. God uses all of them when I let Him, because they are me and He wants to use all of me. He doesn't want me to live in the past forever, the memories are only the saved up treasure I can continue to use today.