I forgot to say this… I appreciate your suggestions for reading in the Bible. I never know where to start, and you’ve given me some ideas.
Thank you.
Laura

My mom (whose almost 76) hasn’t kept a journal, but if she did, it would no doubt be very cool to read. I may have to ask her to start one for her five children.

I wonder if blogs will be our children’s journals of us in the future?

In my mother’s bedroom, stashed in drawers and on shelves and in her closet, are the journals she’s been keeping since she was a teenager. (She’s now 74.) She writes every day, noting any major events as well as details like the weather. If she has people over, she writes down the menu. If we go somewhere together, she tracks where we went, what we did, and where/what we ate. On trips, she takes a smaller journal and writes notes as she goes, which she then transfers into the main book later.

Many times over the years, when I’ve been trying to remember a detail from a former event (“What did we serve at the church Derby party last year?”) she’s researched her journals and come up with the answer (“You provided the drinks and dessert, and the rest was potluck, and Jill brought that wonderful quesadilla maker.”)

Some day these journals will be mine, and I’ll have to decide whether to read them. (Among other things, there are several specific times from my life that I’m not sure I want to remember through her eyes.) When I imagine sitting with this lifetime’s worth of incredibly personal memories, I can’t visualize opening the cover and beginning to read. It will be like having her soul pour out of the pages — wonderful but overpowering and perhaps too much. I hope I have many years before I need to make that decision.