Tongue depressors………..you know the hard pieces of wood that doctors stick in your mouth to hold down your tongue so they can see your throat?   You know, they just about make you gag because they are so stiff?!

Some people use these tongue depressors for a lot of craft ideas, too.  I remember using the smaller versions of tongue depressors and making “log cabins” out of them when we were little.  We would try to bend them to make them go into a circle to make a swimming pool and every time, the stick would break as we tried to bend it – leaving me with a broken splintered little piece of wood.

It’s like us trying to bend God’s rules.   We decide to ignore His rules and do things our way.  We ignore the clear rules He has set out for us in the Bible and He allows us to break and splinter.  His ways are best.  He sees the whole picture.  We need to let Him lead.

The tongue depressor CAN BE SHAPED if soaked in boiling water.  It gets soft and you can shape it into a circle.  It’s just like us.  If we soak ourselves in God’s love and His word and ask Him to lead us in His ways, then He will shape us and mold us into the person HE wants us to be.

Quit trying to make God fit into your way and your rules.  Let’s soak in His word and His love and let HIM shape us.  I would rather be molded into a circle by God, than be a broken, splintered piece of wood that can’t be used to even flatten a tongue!

Do you ever forget what you were doing?  Or forget what you went into the kitchen for?

You go back to where you came from just to remember what you were doing?  Normal forgetfulness is aggravating.  I think it also comes with age. (I’m not referring to the sad condition of alzheimers.) I’m just referring to everyday forgetfulness.

This is how God is with our sins when we ask for forgiveness.  Psalm 103:12 – “as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”

When we go to Him and ask forgiveness, He forgets our sins.  It’s like us going into the kitchen and just forget what we went in for.  But if we don’t accept His forgiveness and keep going back to Him with our sin, it’s as if we don’t accept His grace.  It’s like going back to where we came from so we can remember what we went in the kitchen for.

Don’t go back to God with your sin.  When we ask Him to forgive us, we need to forgive ourselves and accept His mercy and His grace and His forgiveness.  Don’t feel like you have to “remind Him” how bad you were……….He doesn’t want reminded.  He loves us so much that He has already forgotten and never to be remembered again.

So the next time you forget what you went into the kitchen for, instead of getting angry, just whisper a little prayer to God thanking Him for His forgiveness and forgetfulness.

That’s the greatest memory loss ever!!

PS – I just found out my dear sweet little friend from church, Franceile Gorbett passed away.  She suffered from Alzheimers Disease.  May Franceile enjoy her reunion with her husband and her Lord as she walks the streets of gold in heaven. Now I know why God layed on my heart to write about memory loss.  Franceile has no more memory loss!