How do you remember what God has done in your life?

Sometimes i wonder if we make enough of a big deal about celebrating, memorializing and otherwise recording when God does something remarkable in our lives.

I’m a huge fan of Christians sharing stories of God’s grace, mercy and provision with each other to build ourselves up.

But that got me to thinking about how many stories of God’s great work in my life I can still remember to actually share.

Not many was the answer. And not with the kind of vivid detail that they deserve to be remembered.

And I’ve only been a Christian 5 1/2 years.

When I was giving this two-part radio interview about my own journey of faith recently, I was astonished, as if taken by surprise, by the number of providences that i could point to in my own life. (And you can hear me in the interview gloss over them for the sake of narrative efficiency.)

And then I was shocked, as if ashamed, by how little I could accurately recall.

Back in the day, I had briefly considered writing a book about those providences. It was going to be called “The Greatest Fish Story Ever Told.”

I even felt convicted about it for a time.

But i dismissed it when I concluded that the story wouldn’t sound quite as extraordinary to anyone but me.

Now i’m realizing that memorials, markers, ebenezers, the proofs of God’s work in our lives, are as much for our benefit.

Because our faith is weak, and we need to remember.

Because Satan and our own frail flesh wants to keep telling us that God doesn’t really care as much as we think he does. And sometimes we wonder if we are to be pitied because we are really imagining it all.

I have bits of journaling. A few answered prayers in half-used prayer journals. Notebooks of half-written poems. Some special emails saved to disk during my quasi-cyber-courtship of my wife.

I’ve got lots of scraps, but nothing to bring it all together. None of it is in a form from which I can easily draw spiritual strength.

What a waste.

I’m sure I’m not the only one …

How do you help yourself remember God’s grace to you?

Can you think of a better way?