Focal Passage: Genesis 41:14-20, 33-37
As a widower, one of the things that I find joy in, is the occasional conversation with someone that remembers my wife and something that she did or one of her characteristics. We usually laugh about some wonderful memory. I enjoy remembering. I enjoy someone saying her name one more time. And I really enjoy that she is not forgotten.
Being forgotten is a fear that many may have. Being forgotten is like an old song — “just blowin’ in the wind.” We often feel irrelevant and not important. Throughout Joseph’s life — the caravan trip, his first time in prison, his early days in Potiphar’s house and his second trip in prison — Joseph seems to have been forgotten. His brothers forgot. The caravan leaders forgot. Potiphar forgot. Even the cupbearer and baker — his prison buddies — forgot! All forgot, except two. First, the Lord. [Read more…]