Gold Nugget 265 - Life's Binding Thread
Memory is the thread which binds life together. A failing memory is one of the saddest infirmities of old age. Yet there is often this compensation – that the long-distant past is well remembered. The old man forgets what weather it was yesterday, but the sunny birthdays and snowy Christmas Days of childhood live in his memory. The old house, the old faces and voices, the old joys and sorrows, the lessons that sunk into his heart in childhood are with him still.
Suppose the reverse possible – that one had a clear memory of even the least occurrences of the last few weeks or months, but no memory of things long ago; no associations clinging, binding him to old scenes, old friends; not so much as an old prejudice; - what a shallow, mechanical, uninteresting life this would be!
There are common memories as well as individual; household words, family traditions, public and national history, sacred heritages of former generations. One of the most precious possessions of mankind is the knowledge and remembrance of the past.
The Pulpit Commentary, Psalms I Volume I p. 344, Psalms 44:1, (E. R. Conder, W. Clarkson)
Gold Nugget 265
Life's Binding Thread