Never Forget

For the past four months or so, I've been coming up with a "Question of the Week."  These are questions designed to be thought provoking.  Originally I devised these questions to prompt thinking among the students in our youth ministry while our youth minister was in India.  But since then I've expanded the scope to include others who may also be interested.

Over the course of these months, some of the questions have been mind-jarring, while others have been frankly rather pedestrian.  Here are a few examples of previous questions I've used as the "Question of the Week":

If you met the "you from three years ago," what advice would you give yourself?
What's one thing you genuinely like about yourself?
If you could have any three people (dead or alive) as dinner guests, who would you invite?

This week as I was wrestling with what to ask, I thought of all the things we promise never to forget.  We will often say this for example about tragedy, like 9/11 or the Virginia Tech shootings.  But how many things do we say to ourselves we will never forget?  And how well do we keep this commitment?  It seems to me we say this often and almost never mean it.  So this week's question is:

What was the last thing you promised yourself you would never forget?

I remembered mine.  How about you?