YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS

If the headline reminds you of a song, it does me too. Casablanca and Ingrid Bergman urging Sam to "play as time goes by" and reluctantly he does. Ah!  lovely, the old ones are the best.

But I'm not thinking of Humphrey Bogart or the song, "As time goes by" just now, rather I'm thinking of something much closer to home. I'm thinking of something that appeared on this blog just a few days ago. It was under the heading, "Love in the Church" and the writer was saying that if we use LOVE properly in the church, we shall be able to see past the weaknesses of others, even the priest, to what really matters. Here are the actual words of the writer: "Then they lost him (the priest) and they remembered as they reflected and said goodbye. They remembered he created the community they were so lucky to enjoy.

You must remember; it was such a good point for all of us. Not using LOVE as something to make us feel good about ourselves but as a way of seeing past the surface things to the deeper bits, the parts that really matter.

Of course it's tempting for all of us to tell the man at the piano "to play it again", bring back the old times, the good times. But what really matters is that we learn the lessons of the past to make a much better today and tomorrow.