Casey Tygrett on the importance of our memories

Susie Larson Live

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Our memories can have a greater impact than we initially understand. When we address our memories – good and bad – it helps our spiritual formation. Author and spiritual director Casey Tygrett shares from his own life, as well as his research on the subject from his book “As I Recall.”

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0:32.2	inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that
0:36.1	heighten your awareness of his very real presence in your life. We've got an interesting show today. We're going to explore
0:42.3	how our memories play a part in our spiritual formation. Why do you remember some things and not
0:49.1	others? Why do you remember certain sights, smells, odd details, but then not others? And why for so many of us
0:56.1	do our negative memories upstage our positive ones? You know, I have a memory I've never
1:02.0	shared publicly and I prayed about should I share it today, but I'm just going to go for it.
1:06.9	This has surfaced recently, and it was something I knew, I remembered, but it's just not anything that ever surfaced, and it has something I knew I remembered but it's just not
1:11.1	anything that ever surfaced and it has been lately I was in grade school I want to say
1:15.2	I was in third or fourth grade maybe something like that and I had a teacher
1:20.7	that he was everybody's favorite and he was so cool so kind to everybody everybody
1:24.7	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, working on math or what it was, but I had a question. So I raised my hand. He said, come on up. So I went up, and it was quiet time to be working on your paper. I went and walked around because he asked me to come around to his side of the desk. And I put my paper on the
1:47.2	desk and I pointed to the problem. And he smiled. And he put his hand on my back as he's talking
1:51.4	to me. And then he looked up at the class and then he looked at me and slid his hand down to my backside.
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