Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from July, 2011

Monuments and Memories

This past weekend, “Clearview Christian Camp” at Kenosee Lake celebrated its 50th Anniversary. Clearview is sort of a “sacred place” for me. Just being there brings back good memories of laughing around the campfire, work days building cabins and of people who lived their faith and were an example to me. Just being at that camp always connects me to good things from the past. Why am I telling you this? Well, lately I have been thinking more about the importance of memories. When a person loses their memory, either because of injury or age, they lose something very significant. Somehow, our ability to live well now is tied to our ability to remember what has gone on before. That is the principle that is on display in Joshua chapter four. After God miraculously stopped the flow of the Jordan River so the Israelites could cross into the promised land, he gave this command: “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from ...