As we get older, we cannot help reflecting on our lives. I have a playlist of music with 27 memory and emotion evoking  tunes that gives me great joy. Some tunes representing difficult experiences have become the most precious. I congratulate myself for having endured and remaining faithful to God.

My favorite hymn is Be Thou My Vision a traditional Irish melody adopted during my challenging experience as a  missionary in Africa. Many times in ensuing years it has reminded me of the essentials of my faith.  

Leaving on a Jet Plane composed by John Denver and performed by Peter, Paul, and Mary brings back my feelings as a homesick fish-out-of-water twenty-two year old from Alabama working in Southern California. I had left behind the composite of several charming southern girls.  Eventually, I could have married one who fit the composite, but opted for a spunky Yankee girl (Kit) instead.

Memories are making my senior years rich. I can’t repeat the things I did. But I can rejoice in having done them.