We choose to pick the memories we want to focus on.
There are those moments of sweetness and revealing truth and generosity of spirit as well as those that involve thoughtless decisions, hurtful comments and painful neglect. We don’t forget one over the other – we don’t increase one’s importance over the other.
As we learn life’s truth and reality we also learn to forgive the ugly or difficult parts and use the ones of love and redeeming beauty as the building blocks of our life. We choose to become bitter or we choose to see God’s enduring creation and our ability to build on that creation.
Marlene Anderson