Increasingly Forgetful

As I get older I have started to become increasingly forgetful

With everyday objects

Those things we take for granted

The automatic, unconscious items of life

TV remote controls

You know the little device your family fights over

That when it goes missing

Life almost comes to a halt

How can you change the TV without leaving the armchair?

I was making the kids sandwiches

I packed away the lunches

Put the butter in the fridge

The crisps in the drawer

The biscuits in the cupboard

And I lost

The TV remote control

I had bought it into the kitchen to stop Dani from changing channels

And now they had disappeared

So i started to search

It started out as a

Thoughtful search

But rapidly deteriorated into

Worry

Concern

Panic

Blind Panic

What had I done with the TV remote?

My wife shouted “Have you looked in the fridge.”

I opened the fridge

And there

Hiding behind the butter

Was the remote

I felt

Relief

Joy

Stupidity

And amazement that I had just completely forgotten where I had put it.

Last week I lost my keys at work

I searched for ages trying to find them

I went home without them

The next day I found them

In a cupboard

I had left them there, when I picked up some tea towels,

In a hurry

Just forgotten where I had put them

I got to thinking that there are some things that are best forgotten, some things that should be left behind in a cupboard never to be opened.

Jesus by his death paid the price for all my sin

Past, present and all future sins

Every sin I have committed or will commit in the future was nailed to the cross and he paid the price for it.

Past sin is something I can forget and throw away the key.

And when it comes back to mind

I don’t go searching for it.

I look at the cross where it was dealt with once and for all.