Bookmarks

What can I say, I am a collector of bookmarks. I am always shopping for bookmarks. Reading through them one by one selecting the one which speaks to me that day.


People give me bookmarks, I give bookmarks. While reading a book I match it with a bookmark that I believe reflects the content of the book. Pretty silly I know , but humor me.

I have embossed bookmarks, I have metal bookmarks, I have beaded bookmarks, bookmarks with jewels, bookmarks with my initials, my name. I have Christmas bookmarks, Easter bookmarks, and every holiday you can think of. I have a bookmark that represents the cross made with nails. I just love bookmarks.

So why this fascination with bookmarks. I suppose they each represent something to me, maybe from a trip I had taken, or a gift from someone, or perhaps on the day of purchase the bookmark was a reflection of events taking place in my life.

Likewise when I bookmark a chapter or a page it has a significance to me, sometimes it's simple to mark where I stopped reading, sometimes it marks a quote I want to remember, sometimes it reminds me of an event in my life and sometimes it is a reference point to a place I need to return.



There are bookmarks in my life too. Each one revealing a chapter of my life. Like the words written upon the pages of a book these are the pages of my life. A reference point to where I have been, what I have or have not done. Marriage, children, successes, failures, events, losses, tragedy, heartbreaks, joy, happiness. My life story is replete with bookmarks.

Thumbing through all of my bookmarked life, there is one that stands out above all the rest. And that is the bookmark of my journey with Christ. It is my favorite chapter, the one bookmark that stands out above all the rest. The beginning of my life story with God as my savior. There are no more bookmarks after it, because it is a chapter not finished. But it is well worn as I reference it each day, and as I add to it each day.

So have you thought of your own bookmarks? Perhaps there is an area in your life that is your favorite. One you reference when you are in need. Perhaps you are going through a difficult time in your life and you feel you will never be able to add another bookmark, because it is all so sad, hopeless and overwhelming.

Then may I suggest to you that you start a new chapter in your life. One that has you and God as the main characters. God has your hero your savior. Put your favorite bookmark at the beginning of the chapter and go to it daily, or every minute if need be. And know this it will become your salvation that bookmarked place where you and God commune.

Bookmark:... 'WRITE IN A BOOK ALL THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU' (Jeremiah 30:2 NIV)