Thank God for good memories

I decided to look through some of my old DVD’s today and came across this one sent to me by my cousin Marclee Johnson in 2006.

I put it in the player and my memories took me back few years ago when I was a little boy about five or six year’s old running barefoot through the hills of Kentucky.

I lived with my Grandpa and grandma Proffit during that time and my cousin Marclee who was a teenager lived there also. Marclee and my aunt Imogene kind of looked after me as if I was their own son wherever they were I was usually with them.

As the years went by we kept that close relationship between us I think that I thought her more of my mother than my cousin.

Even after I became a man and married my wife and began raising our own family we stayed close and spent much of our time with her and her family, we went to church together we visited often sitting up late after coming in from a revival meeting or a wonderful church service talking about how good God was to us all trying to get the most out of our time together.

After my wife and I moved our family from Indiana to Texas in the late seventies we still stayed in close touch with each other by letter telephone and yearly visits to her house. Viewing this video clip caused me to break down in tears realizing just how much I really do miss her but then my heart is lifted up in joy as I vision her with Jesus singing praises to God with the Angels having that same joy and energy and so much more and knowing her joy will never end. It makes me homesick for the time when I can join her and all of my other family members that are there with her.

Thank God for good memories of departed loved ones without memories it would be really hard to keep our joy while we wait to join them in heaven