Memory is one of God\u2019s greatest gifts.\u00a0 The writer of Proverbs says, \u201cThe memory of the just is blessed\u201d (Proverbs 10:7). I\u2019m a member of a Facebook group called, \u201cHouston Memories.\u201d Recently a picture of the inside of the Majestic Theater brought back memories of Friday night double dates.\u00a0 One particular, Friday evening, as I was waiting to be picked up, my Pastor-Father asked which movie we were going to see.\u00a0 When I admitted that I didn\u2019t know, he replied, \u201cI don\u2019t want you going to that Elizabeth Taylor movie. Now picture four teenagers from the same Baptist church headed to downtown Houston, when the driver asked, if we wanted to go see \u201cCat on a Hot Tin Roof\u201d (staring Elizabeth Taylor)?\u00a0 I lost a three-to-one vote that night. We slipped in and sat in the back row, praying that we wouldn\u2019t get caught.\u00a0 Just as the movie began, two adult couples from our church came in and sat in the row right in front of us. One of them was the Chairman of the Deacons. I never got to see the last five minutes of that movie since we slipped out a bit early, lest we be seen, reported, and become the first teenagers to be ex-communicated from a Baptist church. I\u2019m sure there was a powerful life-lesson learned that night, but I don\u2019t remember it.\u00a0 That\u2019s another good thing about memories \u2013 the older you get the more forgotten endings you have. \u00a0But I am still blessed.<\/p>\n
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