Have you noticed how quickly time flies? Or is just me who thinks time has sped up…

At the moment I’m putting some finishing touches to a Scrapbook Album for my eldest grandson for his fast approaching 18th birthday.

And also tweaking a photo book I’m getting printed for him. The two will be his gift. And going through the years of memories has reminded me of how quickly time passes…

You see two decades ago I started a project that I didn’t realise would become such a mammoth task, a true labour of love.

I started a scrapbook album for each of my then two granddaughters (they both have their albums now).

Then in the years since many more grandchildren have been added to our family with one great grandchild arriving recently!

Adding a scrapbook album for each grandchild as they arrived, which records mainly the fun they’ve had with my husband (Poppy) & I in the first 18 years of their life.

However, since CoVid, every few years I’ve also been creating photo books with an online publisher of our family events, as a hard copy record of family fun together. Giving these as Christmas gifts to each family unit & they love them!

In fact they gather around them remembering times together & things accomplished that they had actually forgotten in the busyness of their lives.

These recent photo books are what I’m presently combining & personalising for my grandson.

Unfortunately, I’ve lost my creative touch with scrapbooking. I noticed this when completing my second granddaughter’s album a few years ago.

Although over the last two decades I have created & gifted 10 other full scrapbook photo albums to family & friends.

But I always make sure everything is fair & equal when giving each grandchild a record of their first 18 years with us, so recently I’ve also expanded it to include fun they’ve had with their cousins, aunts & uncles.

As I’ve noticed in this digital age that a plethora of photos are taken but most get lost in the overwhelm or in digital devices. As technology constantly changes, not necessarily the new compatible with the old, many important family photos go missing!

I’ve felt over the years, especially since my late husband passed into Glory, that I’m our family’s keeper of memories. But this doesn’t accomplish anything unless those memories & times are shared!

A hardcopy photo album or photo book can last several generations! And everyone in the family has free access to a hardcopy whenever they desire to sit, have a cuppa & travel down memory lane.

We live in Exciting Times

Talking about time, have you noticed when we look around this world & its recent events that we are living in very exciting times?

Why exciting?

Well God’s Word gives us some things to look out for when Jesus return is drawing near, He called these events labour pains, forerunners to the bigger events that will herald His imminent return;

‘Jesus answered, 

“See to it that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.

These things must happen, but the end is still to come. 

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains…’ Matthew 24: 4-8 BSB

I’ve noticed things in my own nation aligning with what God’s word fore warned us would take place in  2 Timothy 3.

As there has been a definite moving away at the highest levels of our nation from God’s principles for living that our nation was founded upon & an adoption of practices that go directly against Him.

Just like family memories, if we don’t share them with the younger generations they will remain unknown.

So too will the good news of Jesus & the coming events that will herald His return if we remain silent.

So be aware, be alert & share His good news to all my friend…for time is short! As shared in my personal experience HERE.

Until next time,

Jennifer

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