Nostalgia
There are so many old things that make me sigh and bring back fond memories.
Like Mike’s 98 Chevy Silverado that he is finally getting rid of.
Do you know how many good memories I have of this truck? Mike was driving this truck when I first met him. We had many long, pre falling in love, getting-to-know-you conversations in this truck. We had one of our first kisses in this truck.(Not the first kiss, mind you, but maybe the fourth or something like that). We listened to some great music that Mike put together on a special CD for us that I will always cherish in this truck. We drove to Rhode Island and back each week for three months in this truck. This was the first nice, brand new vehicle Mike bought when he got his first a real job with his hard earned degree in Chemical Engineering. Mike was so proud of this thing and put a lot of work into taking care of it
I will miss this truck.
Or what about the box of books and puzzles I found in the garage on Saturday that someone from church gave me when Katelyn was a baby. The stuff in the box was for preschoolers and gently used. This person thought I’d be able to use it for Katelyn one day when she got older. I thought ” That’s so far away. It will be ages before she’ll be able to use this stuff ” and absentmindedly put it in the garage. Katelyn AND Madelyn enjoyed going through the stuff and playing with it all weekend. The time came to play with it way faster than I ever imagined.
Or what about this drawing of Katelyn’s that she drew a year ago on the 14th of this month and had been on my fridge ever since. It was one of her first “real” drawings that actually looked like what she intended it to look like. That year went all too fast. She was a month away from turning three. She had drawn a snowman.
Or these pictures I have of the girls in the pool last summer. Madelyn’s first time in the pool.
And we just had our last swim in the pool two week ago. This summer went by way too fast. Madelyn no longer needs to float around in that thing. She swims around just fine with her swimmies. Katelyn started dog paddling and swimming underwater.
Here are some videos from this summer. They aren’t that old but I wanted to share them.
Sometimes it’s fun to revisit the past a bit. But it’s not good to live there. Sometimes new stuff is good too. Like, our new life in Christ. I’m so glad Jesus hasn’t let me stay my old self with my old nature. Sometimes I let my old self creep up on me but thank the Lord He doesn’t let me stay there. (Like that song by Pink that says ” don’t let me get me”!) Christ doesn’t allow me to do that. He reminds me that I’m a new creature and I have a new life in him. The old things are gone.
“17Therefore if anyone is (A)in Christ, he is (B)a new creature; (C)the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. ” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (taken from the online Bible source www.bible.com)
“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead” Phillipians 3:13. This passage also taken from web resource mentioned above.
Some new stuff I’m looking forward to:
-Katelyn starting Awanas this Wednesday night. I decided to sign her up for Cubbies at a church close by. It goes from 6:30-8:00 Madelyn will hopefully stay in their nursery(and have fun!) and I’ll participate in their adult Bible study that I’m looking forward to immensely.
-Going to Texas in three weeks for a week and getting to meet new Brooklyn for the first time.
-Potty training Madelyn( “new” didn’t work anywhere in this point)
-Getting to watch a new season of Heroes, Castle, So You Think You Can Dance, Grey’s Anatomy and Glee. And beginning catching up on Lost.
Nostalgia is great but living in the moment while looking ahead is even better.
