Monday's thoughts

"Things we want to forget"
The sermon for Sunday, June 1st

I think it's interesting to move through the questions of faith and theology by showing the contrasting thoughts and to strive to come to some degree of balance. On Memorial Sunday we spent some time thinking about our memories and calling up the prelude past and what we remember from those who have gone before us, and the postlude future and how people will remember us.

On the first Sunday in June we are going to consider what we would like to forget. Remembering everything is not necessarily good. There are some things we want to forget and need to forget.

Because it is the first Sunday of the month we will have communion. We will recall the time Jesus met with his friends for his final meal and how he took the bread and broke it and he took the cup of wine and gave it to them saying, "Take this in remembrance of me."

Were there things he wanted them to forget? If so, what were they? Did he want them to learn to forgive and forget? Was there advice suggesting that they forget the hard times and cling to the good times?

What should we strive to forget? What is best that we not remember? If we have had a hard childhood does there come a time when we need to forget about it and move on?

Are there people we will want to forget? Are there people who have made it difficult for us or people who were so negative that they kept pulling us down and giving us messages that we are not capable? Do we need to learn to forget them?

Do you have thoughts about this?

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I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles Schuster