Our lives are a forgetting and a remembering. A rhythm that follows us relentlessly till death. We are alive, doing things, and we try to forget the fears and anxieties about the future which paralyze us in the present and make us dead and inactive. We are people who hope and believe, and so we try to remember the good that God has done for us. We recall God’s faithfulness and care, and we become men and women of the future who dare to act because we forget our failures and remember God’s action in our every thought and deed.
We stay sane because our eyes are on God who loves us and proves it when we dare to live for God. If we remember to remember God, we find our lives are meaningful and free.
—from the book Song of the Sparrow: Four Seasons of Prayer
by Murray Bodo, OFM
