My Memoirs

No, this post is not going to be a long book on my life. Rather, I’d like to state here that there is a story inside me that wants to get out so I have started an outline about my life. Maybe it will result in my memoirs. Only time will tell.

I’d like to think that I have gained at least a little wisdom in my life so that my story could shed some light and help someone out there. I have learned a lot in my life the hard way. And a few things I have learned the easy way. The hard way and the easy way mostly involves making good or bad decisions. A few bad decisions have marred my life for decades. A few good decisions put me in a place with God I could never have found otherwise. My life was hugely blessed by those good choices. My life was deeply wounded by the bad choices.

So maybe if I tell the story of my life, these truths will be seen by others. It’s worth a try.

This whole thing was inspired by me trying to find a song that summed up my life. I started out looking for a song that expressed the hurt that was caused by my bad decisions but also included my recovery, my faith in Jesus and my longing for the next world – all in one song! Well, I was thinking along the lines of a sad and sentimental song like Zac Brown’s, “Goodbye in Her Eyes,” or Trisha Yearwood’s “The Song Remembers When”. Both songs express my own tendency to live in the past, remembering how wonderful it was in former days. But these songs don’t really tell the story because my story is one of Gods redemption and restoration. It is even a story of future hope. As much as I have become cynical and have given up having any hope in this messed up world, I have been enabled to lay up my treasure in heaven and have hope for my future there.

By the time I was finished thinking this through, I settled on a completely different kind of song that really tells my story. It is Ricky Skagg’s “The Shepard’s Voice”.

My story is not over yet. I will continue to pursue this inspiration and see where it leads. In the meanwhile, I will continue to listen for the Shepard’s voice.