Nostalgia!!  Last night, I stumbled on a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) program regarding Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  For over forty years, I lived in the Mojave Desert not far from Anza-Borrego.  I had a flood of memories!!  ~~  Memories were compounded when I couldn’t fall asleep.  I “surfed” the TV channels and stopped to watch a “Billy Graham Classic” (early crusade).  Ken and Joni Eareckson Tada were being interviewed.  I’ve loved Joni for years!!  Many years ago, I enjoyed a Christian cruise of the Inside Passage to Alaska with Joni and other well-known believers.  ~~  Then I found myself watching a Praise the Lord “classic” on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).  I was watching TBN decades ago when it was a fledgling TV station in Southern California.  (I was watching in black & white, on a TV with “rabbit ears.”)

I could write a lot more on this topic but there are also sad memories: rejection, deserted parent with three young children, financial limitations, ad infinitum.  I choose to focus on the positive things in my life!!  I praise God for the new memories I’m creating at JAARS : volunteer tasks, comfortable apartment, new friends.  “Forgetting what is behind….” (Philippians 3:13)

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