I remember seeing a movie many years ago called Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford. The show was based on a futuristic San Francisco where a few human-like replicants remained. Ford’s job was to destroy the remaining replicants, those who appeared human but were mechanical robots. Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) a replicant, played in one of the scariest scenes that I can ever remember. He was trying to kill Harrison Ford, but at the very end, in a human-like gesture he saved his life. Just before he died he said, “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” He turned from a cold robot to having human feelings and then he died. I only mentioned the above because it was such a touching scene, in real life, too, most of our very touching moments are like ‘tears in the rain.’ Touching moments vanish from our minds before we can analyze them and internalize them. Before we can make them a part of our memory bank. The strangers that we meet who we do a kind deed for another or who do a kind deed for us. Kind deeds are never recorded. The money we hand to a beggar on the street, he might be willing to briefly tell his story, that brief moment when his eyes meet ours. The time you help an elderly lady up who has fallen and you’ve shown love and concern for her. Some have said that those kindnesses we do for others and those they do for us are all recorded somewhere by somebody. Is it true? Or are they all lost like, ‘Tears in the rain.’ There are moments not related to kindnesses but yet are touching moments. Moments that draw a tear or tears from one’s eyes but may be unrelated to a kindness performed. These are tender moments when you are looking into the face of a newborn baby knowing their spirit just came from a special place and has total innocence. Or looking into the face of your sweetheart and exchanging loving thoughts. Going someplace with your children in hand and feeling the joy radiating from their spirits. These are moments that you experience and in a flash they may be gone. They are not usually events that were of such consequence that you write them down as soon as you get home. They are flash in the pan moments that touch your heart and then vanish, much like tears in the rain. Could it really be true that everything that our minds have experienced are recorded in the brain never to be lost? I have heard that but it has been hard for me to believe because there are so many experiences in life that are of no consequence and with no purpose to have been recorded. Than again if everything were automatically recorded why would we be advised to write our histories. I do believe that there is a ‘Book of Life’ that will be opened and that we will all be judged from one day, no one knows what might be written in it. “Our thoughts are not His thoughts and His thoughts are not our thoughts.” But just maybe that is where all of those most tender thoughts are recorded. Maybe we will be judged based on our tender thoughts, our thoughts that are written in the Book of Life? Those that are lost to us like ‘tears in the rain’ but are not lost to Him.