Brain

 

Someday it won't be sharp.

Someday it will struggle to find words, struggle to follow conversations, struggle to recall.  It will falter and forget and fail.  This brain.

Which is why I'm thankful that today it remembers.  Remembers to call and text and respond.  Remembers meetings and reports and due dates.  Remembers to scan and attach and file.  Remembers requests and obligations and orders.  Remembers games and guests and gifts.  Remembers to study and search and schedule.  Remembers to light and lock and latch.  This brain.  

Deliver it by 3.  Pick him up by 4.  Send the card tomorrow.   Take the meal on Saturday.  Turn off the heater before bed.  Grind the coffee before morning.  Wear slippers.  Bring boots.  Water the plant, feed the dough.  This brain. 

It's taken on more remember over the last many months.  It's carried the remember for two.  By God's grace, it does that.  It thinks and remembers.  And keeps thinking and keeps remembering.  It's kind of amazing.  This brain.

I'm so thankful today for the think.  The remember.  This brain.