“…now that I believe Christ has gone to prepare a place for me, I am free to receive the signposts as aids intentionally sent.” Amy Lee, This Homeward Ache
I can relate to this so much! I have a lot of those memory places—like whenever I trim our loropetalum bushes alongside our house I’m suddenly at the little boathouse in David Copperfield.
That seasons rotate and children don’t, and that’s why there are more connections to past memories, is such a good point. I don’t think I’d made that connection before. Now I’m pondering our linear trajectory of life in contrast to nature, and what that means in God’s design.
Linear vs circular change is on my mind a lot but I've not worked through it all the way (does one, ever, get all the way through a thought?!) I'd love to see where your ponderings lead. My current, very simplified thought, is that linear trajectory eventually becomes new again, circling as it were, in the new heavens and new earth...we will receive the kingdom like little children, and be children again and again. Everything in the universe seems to be circular so a straight line, extended forever, is actually a circle. (I'm writing way above my pay grade here! But it's fun to think about.)
Ha—that’s an interesting thought, too! My mind went to alternate religions and worldviews that see everything in cycles, including humans, and how it moves toward a devaluing of individual lives. God’s design, though, while it renews nature, doesn’t renew humans made in his image. Each one of us moves toward eternity—multiplying as a group, and learning and growing individually.
Oh..... I l o v e this, Tresta. The images floated along to accompany me as well, picturing the trees as sentinels on that drive in the pickup truck. Wow. Words as memory palaces--that is something I will be mulling over, and the moving/memory connection when I want to use physical anchors to memorize words. Especially Scripture; brilliant. Thank you (and thank you Amy Baik Lee.)
p.s. how blessed you are, Grandma Coach--those babies....
I can relate to this so much! I have a lot of those memory places—like whenever I trim our loropetalum bushes alongside our house I’m suddenly at the little boathouse in David Copperfield.
That seasons rotate and children don’t, and that’s why there are more connections to past memories, is such a good point. I don’t think I’d made that connection before. Now I’m pondering our linear trajectory of life in contrast to nature, and what that means in God’s design.
Linear vs circular change is on my mind a lot but I've not worked through it all the way (does one, ever, get all the way through a thought?!) I'd love to see where your ponderings lead. My current, very simplified thought, is that linear trajectory eventually becomes new again, circling as it were, in the new heavens and new earth...we will receive the kingdom like little children, and be children again and again. Everything in the universe seems to be circular so a straight line, extended forever, is actually a circle. (I'm writing way above my pay grade here! But it's fun to think about.)
Ha—that’s an interesting thought, too! My mind went to alternate religions and worldviews that see everything in cycles, including humans, and how it moves toward a devaluing of individual lives. God’s design, though, while it renews nature, doesn’t renew humans made in his image. Each one of us moves toward eternity—multiplying as a group, and learning and growing individually.
Oh I love that.
Oh..... I l o v e this, Tresta. The images floated along to accompany me as well, picturing the trees as sentinels on that drive in the pickup truck. Wow. Words as memory palaces--that is something I will be mulling over, and the moving/memory connection when I want to use physical anchors to memorize words. Especially Scripture; brilliant. Thank you (and thank you Amy Baik Lee.)
p.s. how blessed you are, Grandma Coach--those babies....
ridiculously blessed ; )