Why not move forward into this week by looking back?
Your life is a library. Its shelves are lined with journals, certificates, letters, collections, greeting cards, and postcards – written treasures that preserve memory and mark milestones. It is also a living Louvre, a gallery of photographs, music, trophies, gifts, and mementos – curated by relationships, moments and experience. Together, these shelves and galleries bear witness to the story God has been writing in you and the work He has been doing through you.
It is a sacred practice to revisit them, not as if they were mere artifacts, but as living testimonies of your earthly journey. Hold that trophy in your hand again. Linger over the postcard on the refrigerator. Remember the person who gave you that gift. Pull down a journal and read a page or two. You will find, as with Scripture, a song or a beloved book, that they speak differently depending on the season of life. Sometimes they stir laughter, sometimes tears, sometimes quiet awe and deep gratitude. In every case, they help us savor the life we have lived, not merely add to it.
So let us not ignore or leave our treasures tucked away. Instead, let us explore our own library, stroll through our own Louvre. Let us welcome nostalgia – not as a futile longing for what cannot return, but as a holy reminder of the rich and full life we have been given by the God who was with us then, and who is with us still.
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