Early poetry....teaching time

Early poetry...teaching times.....

..I have been going through boxes of old papers.  I found the magazines, newspapers of JFK ' s assassination, old high school papers , my first poem,   letters from boyfriends, and future husband..., old dolls, pictures of friends , even my kindergarten picture as well as pictures of my old glasses which are coming back..., the flood of 1964 on the west coast......

tossed so much away...memories to me, but junk to others.  ......they don't need so much to go through , there will be enough.....and my family will wonder why did she save this????? What is the message here, value, who , what when, where......  Plus, they will have treasures of their own.....

In the Old Testament , the people kept various thing s as memorials from  events in their lives.  They were to teach their children day and night what God has done for them...teach his statutes, commands, laws,,,,but traveling through the desert, they didn't carry storage units of papers, stuff to the promised land...4H fair ribbons, diaries with rusty locks , old newspapers....they carried more important things, treasures to build the tabernacle, basics...bedding, clothes...dishes, .......

The ark of the covenant carried Aaron's rod that budded, a container of manna,,the tablets of the covenant law...all to represent what people needed to remember.......God's law, his provision, their rebellion....and the consequences...

All this to say, what is important Is not the ,"stuff" we accumulate...it is what we teach by our words, action....those are the real......they are eternal....the words, .....the emotions....God's. word....

Exodus 16:34

As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.

Numbers17:10 The Lord said to Moses, “Put back Aaron’s staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.” 11 Moses did just as the Lord commanded him.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.