Remind Me Again. . .

(sometimes with all that life throws at us, it's sometimes easy to lose our sence of humor.  I love humor.  I love to laugh.  I didn't laugh much 4 and 5 years ago.  But God healed my heart, and the laughter came back.  More on that later.  All I have to do is look at myself and I can get a good laugh . . .   :)

Remind Me Again

Short term memory…remembering things from not long ago.  Mine is getting worse as I get older and I’m only 49.  It can be a little worrisome.  Just the other day, a friend came up to me at church (this is Sunday) and asked how Wednesday went the week before.  I stared at her with a blank look and asked “What was last Wednesday?” 

She gave me that “Are you crazy?” look and reminded me that I had asked for an important prayer plea for a friend and me.  As soon as she started talking about it, I was like, “Oh yes!”  It seems the more days that go by, the more blank stares I give people which is somewhat disturbing.

            I’ll be getting ready for the day in my bathroom and think about what I need to do in the kitchen.  Before I can even get in there, I forget why I was going.  I turn around to go back into the bathroom and when I get there, I remember what it was I was going to do.  Can you see me repeating, repeating, repeating to myself as I walk back to the kitchen so I won’t forget?  And then there is the time I was talking on the cell phone to my mother and I noticed by the clock I had to leave soon for an appointment.  I always take my phone with me when I leave the house, so I’m searching all over the house and getting frustrated because I cannot find my phone.  I told my mother and she asked what I was talking into?  I caught myself in the mirror and saw a blank stare staring back at me, and then a ridiculous face rolling her eyes.

            Am I not exercising enough? (I do fairly well.)  Am I not eating healthy enough?  (I do eat healthy foods, although I do a chaser of chocolates and other sweet treats after a good meal.)  Am I not sleeping enough?  (We have new mattresses and I am sleeping wonderfully now.)  Could it be…my brain is just aging?

            I always said I hoped I would age gracefully.  I was talking about the old body though, not giving a thought to my brain.  How do you grow old gracefully when you can’t remember what you did last week, or even yesterday?  My first thought is to just use humor and laugh it off.  Those crazy stares I get from people are pretty funny!

            Maybe this is why God told me to write so I could go back over past writings and say, “Oh yes, that was a good day, or that was a good lesson.”  My writing may be for my own memory’s sake.

            My short term memory is something I’m going to start praying about.  If you want to pray for it too, please do!  And if you come up and ask me about it or anything else and I give you one of those blank stares, just pat my arm and say, “It's Ok honey…”

            Now back to my story. . .I did start a story didn’t I. . .what was I thinking about. . .

CAN YOU TELL ME?