Smell and Sound

Not the traditional sight and sound but I found it more significant with smell...

These 2 sense get to my memory so very easily. Being a person that tends to easily draw associations, there are so many smell and sounds that always bring me back to memory lane. Even though sight is an easy access all around, sight somehow does not jot my memory as smell can.

During a midnight walk yesterday, I put on a playlist that I have not heard in a long time, and some that I usually skip. I cannot help but find myself flooding with memories through the tunes, bringing me back to a very specific season in my life and what life was like. Even as at certain point of the journey as I was walking through some residential area, with the same view but a notable smell reminded me a bout my hometown of all places.

At that moment history reminiscing, I slowed down my walking pace from the speed of knowing my destination to walking aimlessly at a park. I wanted the moment to last a little longer and from a 30 minutes walk for that route came to about almost an hour.

At the end of the walk as I came back to a recognizable site of my front door, I snapped back into the present reality and wondered to myself how far I have come. More than just a drastic geographical change, but the life that I never thought I would embark on.There are somethings that I never expect and some that is beyond my dreams. Some dreams die, then new ones come along and the transition of it all was rather unique that only a God can direct.

Life did not become easier here in this life, but what comes after is something that I look forward to even more. Appearance of strength and revelation become more of a regular thing as time goes by and it is always exciting to experience them.

God's sovereignty is somewhat still a mystery and will always remain a mystery even though I keep reminding myself about it. Proverbs 3 is a reminder nonetheless that the sovereignty of God is actually the very miracle that many of us crave for. As a young boy, getting to know of the miracles that I read in scripture, I have always wondered when do I get to witness such miracles of God, when God has been working on me a huge long miracle; where reflecting back to a past that would would so unexpectedly find myself ending up where I am today.

If I could remember one thing that is a common thread connecting my past to my present in this journey, is the state of 'desperate surrender'. God has always showed up in the state of desperate surrender, which has led me to where I am today.

I am feeling thankful for memory jotters that remind me about my past and where I am today.