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in a place where time had ceased,
And I thought of my former living and the land where the years increased
And I know of that future judgment how dreadful soe’er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.” -
Charles Dickens, in his story of The Haunted House, tells of a man w’ho sat by his fire one night. He was miserable.full of bitter memories. The things he wanted he couldn't have, and the things he had, he didn’t want. Dickens portrays a spirit coming and speaking to him, saying, “1 can relieve you of all your bitterness if ybu will give up your memory.” They made a deal and the man gave up his ability to remember. His life became empty and how he suffered. no pictures on the wall and no glad voices echoing across the hills of rime, Dickens closed the story with a little prayer. The man got down and prayed to God. He said, “O Lord, keep my memories green, keep my memories green.. Let me write in the book of remembrance.” Maybe we need to pray that same prayer.
Hair you stopped this Christmas sea on to say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul.” Will you bow your head and say, “Lord, keep my memories green. Give me the capacity to shut up in the little rooms the things that should be shut there but to keep the windows up and let the sunshine in.”
Christmas will not be sad for you if you thank God for green memoriees and for the lamps that have been lighted because of the flower that blooms upon the win dow sill of our souls. If you don't h. ve a little book or remembrance, whv don't you make it a Christmas gift to \ourself and begin to put d r.vi there all the people that love '.on. and all the people who believe in you. And how God loves you. All of these are your assets. All the g< od things that have happened to voti, and things that you had no part in, that have brought joy and sun-hme into your life. Continue
h day to tell another story of ( ’.id's goodness and God's love, "And a book of remembrance was written for them that feared the Lord, and thought upon His name."
May this be a glad Christmas for each o* ,.s in that we will think upon the name of the Lord. Let us love and fear Him, and let us keep a little book of remembrance... filled with gratitude.
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