Unforgettable

Unforgettable

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

Psalm 103:2

You May Find This Story hard to believe, but a British newspaper began an article with the following sentence: “Heartfelt commiseration to Dorothy Naylor of Plymouth, whose recent daytrip to Bridgewater was spoiled when her husband, Oliver, left her on the forecourt of a garage . . . and drove seventeen miles before noticing his wife was not in the car.”

“I couldn’t believe he’d gone without me,” Mrs. Naylor told the Western Morning News. “I usually sit in the back because I can move around more, but normally we talk to one another.”

The couple, both in their seventies, had pulled into a filling station to change a tire. After replacing the tire, Mr. Naylor drove off and didn’t notice his wife’s absence until he had arrived in another town. After stopping in town, he asked his wife a question. When she didn’t answer, he turned around and discovered that he had left her behind. The paper added that the couple had been married for forty years. They both chalked it up to faulty memory.^a

That raises the question, How’s your memory? We don’t mean in general. We mean how is your memory when it comes to remembering each other? Now, we don’t expect that you’re at risk for driving off from an event and not noticing that your spouse isn’t with you. But all of us from time to time could benefit from letting our partners know we think about them often. That’s what Nat King Cole was singing about in his award-winning song “Unforgettable.”

So here’s our challenge for you today. Sometime in the next twenty-four hours, do something out of the ordinary that lets your spouse know you are thinking of him or her. It may be as simple as a little e-mail or a voice-mail message. Then again, it may be singing to your spouse your own rendition of the Nat King Cole classic (but only if you have a singing voice). What you do is up to you. Just make sure your spouse knows that he or she is in your thoughts today.

And while you’re at it, why don’t you ask God to help you to never forget the good things he does for you? In fact, why not say a prayer together right now, thanking God for a couple of good things he’s doing for you this week?

Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.

—Oscar Wilde

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