Remembering

Don't ask. Just fooling around in Photo Shop. Maybe this is what a rainbow looks like on Mars.

Some of you may be familiar with the advice in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 12 where we are advised to remember our Creator in the days of our youth. The chapter goes on to describe the things that happen to old men. They lose their sight, their hearing, their strength and enthusiasm, and even are afraid to climb ladders. Why is the writer trying to get us old men to remember our maker in the days of our youth? Those days are passed. We cannot undo the past. But just a minute. This is written to young men. Remember now, while you are young. I am thinking that this is good advice for two reasons.

Remembering at a young age sets a pattern for living and thinking. As we are when we are young, at least in our thinking, is often what we are as we age. We just mature and develop in the thought processes and become more wise and learned (hopefully) as we continue a train of thought. Also, I believe we advance from a physical state of being when we are young to a more spiritual and intellectual way of life as we become more restricted in what we can physically do.

Remembering our creator in the days of our youth will hold us in good stead when we are old and decrepit and have only our thoughts and our memories to entertain us.