Sometimes
we feel some distance [from God]. How do we manage that? How do we live with
the experience of distance from God? I think mainly it is a matter of memory.
Remember the good times. Remember the close occasions. Remember the profound
worship. Remember the Lord's table. Remember your baptism. Remember the bread
and the cup. Remember your Christian friends. Remember the old [and new] songs and
you will get through. It just hurts me to think of the young people who do not
know a hymn, who do not know a single Scripture verse, and who have never sat
next to the strong shoulder of a believing man or woman. How will they ever
make it? You see, what we do here on Sunday, in case you’re wondering, is that
we are making memories. What happens today [in worship] will be the only food
you will have one of these days. But it will be enough. It will be enough.
--
Fred Craddock in The Cherry Log Sermons
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