Welcome back…Pull up a chair and join in. The picture here is from a porch in 1939 in N.C. It is most likely a front porch of a old country store…But I liked it…Come join me on the back porch, not so crowded there. A favorite comedian of mine passed away a few weeks ago…James Gregory, a Georgia boy. When I decided to write something mid-week the name From The Back Porch just popped up in my head. Don’t know why but I just liked it. Now James was not of that line of thought. He believed that when we left the front porch and went to that thing called a deck, it was just another step on the way down for our nation. He said “you can’t see a thing from that deck, anything could be happening and you would not know it.” You couldn’t wave at anybody driving by, did not matter if you knew them or not…”wouldn’t want them to think you were uppity.” Also, where did you put that old stove? “Why right out there on the front porch beside the old washing machine.” You know there was a certain amount of simplicity in those days and for some reason I get a sense of comfort from those days and the people who were on that porch.

As I consider the events of this day I remember yesterday…June 6…not the June 6 of 2023 but June 6, 1944. Felt bad toward the end of the day because there was so little said or written about it. The apostle Paul said at the end of Philippians 3 “One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind… and here from gotquestions.com is a biblical perspective.

“The word forgetting in this passage means “no longer caring for, neglecting, refusing to focus on.” Our memories store millions of pieces of information gained through our senses since birth. Some experiences are impossible to forget, and any effort to forget them only makes them more prominent. Paul is not advising a memory wipe; he is telling us to focus on the present and the future, rather than the past.”

I can’t get June 6, 1944 out of my memory. God bless them for all they gave. This past weekend many folks went to the beach…on June 6, 1944 a lot of folks went to the beach…A lot did not come back home.

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