Remember

Haddon Robinson, observing that the Old and New Testaments were full of history and peppered with the word “remember,” wrote: “Unfortunately, many of us ignore history. We have not read the minutes of the previous meetings. Graham Wallas, in Our Social Heritage, imagines what would happen if every human being instantly lost all knowledge and all habits acquired from previous generations and, at the same time, retained every power of the mind except memory. The result would wipe out civilization and culture and threaten the annihilation of the human race.”

Robinson goes on to quote Hendrik Rookmaaker, the Christian art critic, who warned his students: “You cannot begin as though there was nothing before you. There have been many who have struggled before you.

Learn from them; be humble. You stand on the shoulders of those others, and you can maybe take their ideas a little further; that is all. Then one day, someone will go beyond you; only be sure that you take your ideas and your work deeper into the Christian way of seeing reality.”-Haddon Robinson, “On Target,” Focal Point.