I was listening to an old Temptation’s song “Memories”; now this song
came out around 1975 on their ‘album’ A Song For You – so no doubt a lot of you
have never heard it or even heard of it! So I suggest you YouTube it.
This is probably one of the most beautiful songs that I have heard and
it always makes me cry. Sometimes the tears are from the sheer magnitude of the
beauty of the song, but most often than not, the tears are from the memories it
evokes—I guess that’s what it’s supposed to do after all, given its name.
Wonderful, beautiful, sad, ugly, delightful, depressing, pleasing, unhappy….all
of these emotions and more flood my soul from listening to one song, yet still
I listen.
Some of the words include “…sweet, sweet memories of days gone by, that
make me cry…that make me sad.” I know, I know.....I shouldn’t listen to the song
if it does that to me. But sometimes, I want the memories, I need them…I need
to understand that from the memories, I learn. I learn to lean on God. We all
have memories that make us sad, some of those memories may be very old but a
great deal of them might just be ‘fresh’ memories. There is not a one of us
that have not experienced a bout of sadness when an event or even a song
triggers a memory; perhaps the death of a loved one, the trials and
tribulations of life or the memory of someone hurting you.
I am at a stage in my
life where the memories are of the fresh designation, along with the
accompanying pain. And that’s okay, because I know how to handle them. The
memories will become what they are supposed to be – distant – resurrected only
by hearing a certain song and then die as quickly, once the song ends.- Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
- John 14:1 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
- Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
- Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- James 5:13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
- John 15:7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- 1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your anxieties on Him, because he cares for you.
