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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Forgetful

Are you forgetful? I am. 

Reading through old journals and letters never fails to delight. Surprise. And confound. Highlighting my forgetfulness about experiences and facts from our personal history.

“Don’t forget” and “remember” are two exhortations. Repeated in Scripture. For good reason.

“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live.
Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.”
Deuteronomy 4:9 CSB

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Devotional Memoir

Fog

Opening shades to the mysterious. One January morning. 

Fog. Hiding details outside my window. 

Fog. Resting in the woods. And midair.

After Christmas and into the first week of this New Year, I take time to think back. Trying to remember the ebb and flow of last year. 

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Stillness

After Christmas song and celebration. Days before a new year dawns. 

Welcome stillness. In your chair. On a porch. In the woods. At a coffee shop.

And take time for remembrance.

Practice a simple scroll through the past year’s calendar. Or go on a longer walk through your journals.

Wait. Listen.

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