Patty and I make fun of each other when we do funny things because of memory loss. The other day I needed to go to Freres Building Supply in Jefferson, and I asked Patty if she wanted to go along. She said, “Yes, I would, and I will drive so you don’t get lost.” We took off, and when we got to the stop sign, she turned right and then left into Dollar General. I asked what she was doing that we were going to Freres; she thought for a minute and then said, “I was just testing you to see if you remembered where we were going.” I mocked her for the rest of the day. The next day she said she had to go to the church to pick up our cooler that they had borrowed for Vacation Bible School and asked if I wanted to go, and I said, “Yes, but I will drive so you don’t end up at Dollar General.” I drove to the covered area on the North side of the Old Chapel at JBC, and Patty said, “The cooler is in the gym; I will get out here and walk through the gym, get the cooler, and meet you at the gym door,” which is on the other side of the Old Chapel. Patty got out, and I turned the pickup around, and instead of turning left toward the gym door, I just kept going straight and went down the driveway and turned left on the Highway, and headed home. I got about halfway home and thought, “Where am I going?” I turned around and got to the gym door as Patty was walking out. When she got into the pickup, I was laughing hysterically. She asked what was so funny, and I was tempted to say, “Oh, nothing,” but I couldn’t stop laughing, so I told her, and then she had a good laugh and heckled me the rest of the day.

I have memorized these verses and meditate on them almost every day.

2 Corinthians 5:1-4 For we know that if the earthly tent (body) which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this tent (body) we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this body, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

While we are in this earthly body, we groan! Amen to that! When we die or Jesus returns, we get a new eternal body; it will be a body like Jesus has. It won’t get sick; it won’t get old; it will be super strong and won’t get tired. We will have a mind like Jesus and be able to think clearly, and powerfully and we won’t forget anything! I can’t wait, and by the way, that promise is only for those who are His followers.