Many of us senior adults will remember our fathers Sunday.

Many have already left this earthly life and are experiencing the unimaginably perfect presence of our Heavenly Father.

I certainly will be doing that on Father’s Day.

My father, Burt Williams, was a preacher who pastored 5 congregations in Kentucky, Ohio and South Carolina.

Over the last 30 years of his ministry he wrote brief vignettes for a telephone ministry he called “Dial-For-Truth.” Here is a sample of one of his minute-energizers:

Forgetting God

Some days (perhaps today?) we find ourselves intensely absorbed in the busy-ness at hand.

Senior Living

Our attention is riveted on the details of what we are doing. Time can slip up on us without even a moment’s thought of God. Maybe we can identify with a prayer by Sir Jacob Astley back in 1642:

“Oh Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not forget me.”

Sir Jacob should have known that his prayer was unnecessary, for God promised in Isaiah 49:15-16, “Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands…”

No, we never have to worry about God forgetting us, only our forgetting Him.

Today, heavenly Father, let Your Holy Spirit quietly remind me of Your constant love and presence. Help me internalize Psalm 26:3, “You will keep me in perfect peace, when my mind is stayed on You, because I trust in You.”

I am truly grateful to The Chronicle for inviting me to write these columns because for about 20 years my dad wrote articles for the Times & Democrat newspaper in Orangeburg. What a blessing to “take up his mantle” and continue writing!

Next week: Dealing with dementia