Friday's Footnote

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Good morning, family and friends!

Seems that we will be having a warm, sunny day here in Nederland, TX. God is good at all times; on sunny days and on not-so-sunny days. He is just good and great for always!

Yesterday, we did some shopping in nearby Beaumont, TX, ending with a trip to an antique mall in Lumberton, TX. While my husband went to see if some friends were free to meet for supper, I browsed through most of the booths in this store. It had been over a year since I had shopped there, but I was glad to be able to return.

I hadn't walked far when I entered a booth and beheld a glass, one-gallon milk jug from long ago. As I stood there, my mind took me back to a time when we had milk delivered to our door three times a week by a local milk company there in Chicago, IL, where I grew up. Memories flooded my mind.

On I walked, and then I saw a cigar box on a table in another booth. Once again, I went on a mental stroll down memory lane. In about the first and second grades, we all brought an empty cigar box to school and that's where we kept our glue, erasers, pencils, etc. One year, I spilled my glue in my box but, for some odd reason, the teacher refused to let me take my box home and get another one. Funny, the things we remember!

As I continued to walk through more booths, I thought of my parents and really missed them. I wished for Mom to be with me at this antique mall so we could share memories from the past, but she's in IL and much too sickly to travel and/or shop anymore. Dad is in a convalescent home due to his failing health and the ill effects of dementia. 

I had a wonderful childhood, being raised in a loving, two-parent home. At the age of nine, my parents began attending a Pentecostal church and that's where we all were born again of the Water and the Spirit. Then, life with Dad, Mom, and my two brothers, Dwight and Casey, really became good and interesting!

I'm grateful for precious memories of the good old days but, I'm really appreciative that my parents introduced me to the Lord so many years ago. He never grows old, nor does His love for me. 

I have an old cassette by the Imperials, and this is one of my all-time favorite songs to listen to:

I Still Love You, Lord

performed by the Imperials and The Oak Ridge Boys

Verse One

There's a place in the back of my mind

A little corner reserved for all time

It's home sweet home

Precious memories, oh, so fine

There's just some things

I cannot leave behind

Chorus

And I still love You, Lord,

In that same old-fashioned way

And I know that I could never feel any other way

And even if I could live to be a hundred years or more

I'd still love You, Lord,

In that same old-fashioned way

Verse Two

Father Time grows older every day

He says I've changed

Well, I guess, so have you

And as time runs out on this life of mine

I know my love for Jesus will never change

Have a blessed day, and I hope you, too, have sweet memories to think of occasionally. I pray that our love for Jesus will never change!

May your Friday be fabulous with our Faithful Friend & Father!!