Everyone has trouble remembering things from time to time, especially as we get older. This is natural, there is even research on the things which we all forget most.  83% forget names most, 60% forget where something is, 53% forget  words, 49% forget what was said and 42% forget faces.  Our problem with forgetting isn’t just about small things like people’s names and where we put the remote, these are just smaller lapses of memory which reflect a much deeper, longer lasting forgetfulness which seems to be a part of human nature.

Human life, according to our Biblical tradition began with Adam and Eve forgetting the word of God, in one ear and out the other! Throughout the Old Testament you will find story after story of God’s people forgetting their God and his wonderful deeds for them.  You can find the same pattern in Armenian history. Just as soon as a great work of God transforms our people, in our Gold and Silver ages, we Armenians forget where we came from and for whom we were made, with terrible consequences for our people.  Well it is human nature to forget who we are and where we came from.  But it is God’s nature, like a good father, to bring us constant reminders of who we really are and for what grand purposes we are made.