Good morning…
Life gets busy for all of us. Schedules fill up. Routines settle in. It is very easy for weeks to pass without spending quality time together. Distance hinders. Commitments clash. Time can evaporate without meaningful connection.
For our family, last night was different.
At Christmas time, we gave the gift of Mamma Mia tickets at the Fox Theatre to the women in our family (plus my husband, Steve, the gift giver). Two daughters. One daughter-in-law. One girlfriend. (Our two sons stayed home, opting instead for a golf outing with Steve tomorrow). With last night marked on our calendar for months, we made an amazing dinner at home, I donned my favorite Mamma Mia pants, and we headed downtown for the musical.
Singing the words to most every song and enjoying the performance profusely, we savored a night of great fun together. Quality time, truly quality time. Joyful memories will always remain.
I remember now what Victor Frankl wrote in the book we are studying this semester, Man’s Search for Meaning. “What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you,” says Frankl. Experiences install memories that live on inside of us.
So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable (2 Corinthians 4:18, AMP).
As a family, we experienced quality time together, creating special memories, everlasting and imperishable. No power on earth can take away this great gift.
By night’s end, the kids headed home to their full normal lives, and we fell to sleep, deeply grateful.
…Sue…
