Alzheimer's disease is one of the most frightening things for most of us. Everyone wants to have memories. Not only is human memory limited, but memories themselves have limitations. Coming together and rituals are good methods for keeping memories alive. We can see even Jesus relying on gatherings and memories: "Whenever you gather together in my name, do this in remembrance of me."

Although the contemporary world has made our memories very much relative, the digital world itself doesn't seem to forget anything.

The basic understanding of God is that God is eternal. Meaning, SHe is always in the Present. The One who has no yesterday or tomorrow. The One who sees what was ten thousand years ago, what is now, and what will be ten thousand years into the future. Therefore, nothing good ever disappears from Hir sight.

We are amnesiacs. The world may forget us, and everything. But God forgets nothing.

We have heard a story. An old man arrives at a clinic in the morning. He requests if he can be attended to and dismissed at the earliest, because he has an important appointment. When the nurse draws his blood for a blood work, she asks him where his appointment was that morning. He says that he had given word to have breakfast with his wife. When she asks where his wife was, he says that she is in the memory care unit at a nearby nursing home. When the nurse enquires, wouldn't she wait for him even if he is a little bit late, the answer is, "She doesn't remember that I have given her a word, or even who I am" (because she has Alzheimer's). When the curious nurse comments, "Well, then would it matter if he can't make it," the elderly man responds: "Even if she doesn't know, I know very well who she is, and that I have made this commitment!"

Even though we know that we will vanish from people's memory sooner or later, it's most comforting to know that nothing good vanishes from God's memory!