Posts with the tag “memory”

Most of us have inherited a story about our family that we have never examined. Not the facts. The interpretation. The unspoken rules about what is safe to talk about and what gets avoided. The wound that became a tradition. Jeremiah says God forgives and remembers no more. That is not just a promise about your sin. It is a model for how you handle someone else's.  Read More

In Coco, the rule is devastating. When the last living person forgets you, you suffer the Final Death. You simply cease to exist. It is a beautiful movie. But it cannot answer the one question that matters most: what happens when everyone who loved you is also gone? What happens when there is no one left to remember? Isaiah saw the answer. God sends the dew of the dawn onto those sleeping in the dust, and the earth gives them back. Not because someone kept a photograph on a shelf. Because God remembered where He put them. The people you love who belong to Jesus are not waiting to be forgotten. They are waiting to be raised. Read the full post.  Read More