How easy to forget
When a holy claim is placed upon your life
That you are marked indelibly
Never to be erased from care or memory.
How easy to remember
When a worldly burden is placed upon your life
That you are marred indelibly
Always to be exempt from care or memory.
Remember whose you are
At the calling of your name
At the healing of the lame
At the saving of the same.
Remember whose you are
When pain and tears abound
When hate and fear are ‘round
When silence is the sound.
Remember whose you are.
How easy to forget
When joy and love are showered upon your life
That you are chosen eternally
Never to be lost or discarded.
How easy to remember
When fear and pain are rained upon your life
That you are forsaken eternally
Always to be lost and discarded.
So tie a string around your finger
Gaze upon an icon
Rub the contours of your chosen medallion.
Whatever it takes,
Remember whose you are.
—For the Rocky Mountain Conference United Methodist Women’s Spiritual Life Retreat, April 2004
© 2005 Cheryl A. Hemmerle. All rights reserved.
