I am sitting in Miranda Fair in Sutherland Shire having coffee when a whole lot of memories just flooded back to me. The very cafe I am sitting in is the same one Marion and I sat in as we waited anxiously while our eldest son Andrew went for a job interview. He got the job but only stayed one day as it wasn’t what he wanted. What he wanted was to play golf and go surfing every day, and so he got what he wanted for a while longer.
It got me to thinking about memories.
We can view memories two ways.
A. As links to what we have lost in life.
B. As deposits we have gained from life
In other words memories either reveal our scars or our stars.
Every time I visit Sydney I try to get out to Sutherland because our kids were teenagers during that season and we have so many amazing memories of those times.
I can’t help thanking God for all those amazing moments as we watched our kids become young adults and start to set their own paths in life.
Did we have some difficult moments during those years – ofcourse. But why crystalise them in stone as bad memories. Focus on the good times and visit those memories often and soon the memories of difficult times will fade away until they no longer feature in your journey of life.
You energize your future by building on your good memories.
You restrict your future by dwelling on your bad memories.
Focusing on your good memories empowers you to keep going forward in life with a positive outlook and a hope that the best is yet to come.
Hi Steve
So relate to the sitting in Miranda Fair having a coffee and reminiscing. I spent many times there with my mum during the last years of her life when she lived at Cronulla. Can remember too being at North Cronulla beach one Christmas and Rick and Melissa meeting up with you and Sheree in the surf. How blest are we to have you and Marion as mentors and friends.
Much love to you both
Chris (& Rick too of course).