In our moments of deep reflection, particularly with a pandemic raging, it can be therapeutic to spend time recalling memories, and faces of people from our distant past. There is a tendency to remember the good that people do, disregarding those incidents that angered us. In my experience I rise from my walks down memory lane with an awareness that I was being encouraged to keep on making memories that I can treasure at some future date.
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." ~ Aeschylus.
Returning to the present, offering The Father our thanks for providing us with an opportunity to
reminisce on fragments from our past life, is His invitation to appreciate all that has brought to us to where we are today.
God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry.
He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him. ~ Rebecca St. James
My favourite episode of "The Twilight Zone 1959" is "Walking Distance" providing me with the awareness that our meditative moments can supply us with all the assistance we can muster when trekking down nostalgia lane, to discover that our real life is best lived in the here, and now.
Here's a link to that episode, superbly scripted, with a cast dedicated to realising the benefits of our occasional strolls down nostalgia lane.
The 25 minute episode needs a minute to load. Best click on the picture enlarger in the top right hand corner for best viewing.
https://archive.org/details/Twilightzone_201804/005-Walking+Distance.avi
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