What We Should Remember About Life

What We Should Remember About Life by Gene Poore As we mature, life’s events attach curses or blessings to our memory. We create songs and sing of near-universal experiences--good or bad--and daydream about yesteryear enchantments or tremble in nightmarish fear. Few of us browse through our memory antique shop without spotting items worthy of “remember when” topics. Although we rarely think beyond our ego, what we remember about life interrupts our hunt for reality. We remember hearing or reading that a Higher Power “Formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (GEN 2:7). Sadly, too many egos dispute a Higher Power created humankind. Each naysayer would rather reason, instead, a slimy, crawly sea creature evolved into swinging critters on a limb, who, today, drive eighteen wheelers or perform brain surgery. If we evolved from slimy, crawly sea creatures into truckers and surgeons, how did that slimy, crawly sea creature find existence? What inert power from where programmed such an organism? Or is a Higher Intellect defiantly the cause, and the progress evolves according to that Higher Power’s timetable? Despite what each of us believe, humans are where we are today because a beginning occurred. As puny humans, the only certainty to our thoughts reveals that we are incapable of duplicating such a cosmic beginning. Like making biscuits from “scratch” . . . We can’t, because we can’t make the scratch. Although we remain inquisitive and unsure about our beginning, and we know we are not responsible for humanity’s beginning, as humans we continue seeking higher power sources for that beginning. While we search for truth, we should give the Higher Power a name. Why not keep the Higher Power’s name that has penetrated the eons? God. Then, when we read from Genesis to Revelation with an open mind, we might discover God exists. If convinced God exists, what difference does God’s gender make if God extends cruel, merciful, wrathful, or loving arms. We each have those traits, which we should if created in God’s image. If God created flesh, God created flesh for a purpose like the potter manipulates his clay. Thus, we must reflect attitudes heavenward that say, “Thou art worthy . . . To receive glory and honor and power: for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” (REV. 4:11). That we should remember about life . . . From life’s beginning to life’s end.