Vacant Pages

My daughter has pursued a second career. Besides being a first grade teacher, she is selling scrapbook/photo albums, and teaching folks how to organize and enjoy their boxes of saved photos.

At the beginning of the initial class, most women who attend buy a blank photo album. All pages begin empty, waiting to be filled with saved memories. I had a lifetime of photos and vacation memorabilia, which I was ready to categorize and paste. I filled my multiple albums with photos of family and friends, which reminded me of relationships through the years, many of which are now gone. There were travel photos and keepsakes, photos depicting accomplishments, and pictures of nature which seemed important to me at one time. All the photos showed me things reminiscent of temporary happiness and short-lived beauty.

Temporary happiness is fine, as long as we realize it for just what it is: something which lasts only for a little while. It is wonderful to go back through the years and review delightful moments, but each heart longs for something, or someone, who will be there forever. I know just that someone... God. That longing in our hearts for that someone is explained in the Bible, in Ecclesiastes 3:11. It says, "God has set eternity in the hearts of men." Eternity is not temporary or fleeting. It is forever, and we have someone to share it with. It begins when we realize this fact, and it lasts forever. God can fill the empty pages of our hearts' blank albums with all that He is. He is eternal and never ending. You can have a love relationship with Him starting today, and it will last forever!

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Contributed by Marion Smith
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