Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this podcast from Middays with Susie Larson.

This is an encore presentation of Middays with Susie Larson.

Welcome, welcome just won't do death. You don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got you late. Welcome, welcome to Mid-Days.

I'm Susie Larson.

It's so honored to get to spend this time with you.

I look forward to connecting with you every single day to bring you conversations that

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word, and that

heighten your awareness of his very real presence in your life. We've got an interesting show today.

We're going to explore how our memories play a part in our spiritual formation. Why do you

remember some things and not others? Why do you remember certain sights, smells, odd details,

but then not others? And why for so certain sites, smells, odd details, but then not others?

And why for so many of us do our negative memories upstage our positive ones?

You know, I have a memory I've never shared publicly, and I prayed about should I share it today, but I'm just going to go for it.

This has surfaced recently, and it was something I knew, I remembered, but it's just not anything that ever surfaced.

And it has been lately.

I was in grade school.

I want to say I was in third or fourth grade, maybe, something like that.

And I had a teacher that he was everybody's favorite, and he was so cool, so kind to everybody, everybody just loved him.

And I did too.

I just thought he was so great. And we were having one of those days where you're working at your desk. The lights were off,

but the light was coming in, the natural light from the windows, and we're all working, I don't know,

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