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Christianity Today Award of MeritWhat if our memories are like shells we gather on a beach?According to pastor and spiritual director Casey Tygrett, "Weand all those who have come before uspick up the experience and we sense it: we feel its edges, notice its color, we smell the distinctive character (for shells it is the sickly seafood salt smell) of the experience, and we try to make sense of what it is. Is it beautiful? How would you describe the colorthe tones, the shades, wrapped around the ridges and swirls? Has it been damaged? Does the hard edge scrape our hand, leaving a blemish or a mark?"How we hold and carry these memoriesgood and badis a part of what forms us spiritually. In this way we have a common bond with the people of Scripture who also had a sensory life, gathering shells and trying to make sense of them. Previously titled As I Recall, Casey Tygrett's writing in The Practice of Remembering explores the power of memory and offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.

Casey Tygrett (DMin, Lincoln Christian Seminary) is a theologian in residence at Parkview Christian Church in Orland Park, Illinois. He previously served as teaching pastor at Heartland Community Church and has taught at Lincoln Christian University and Seminary and Emmanuel Christian Seminary. Casey now oversees the spiritual direction practice for Soul Care, hosts the Restlessness Is a Gift Podcast, and is the author of Becoming Curious and The Gift of Restlessness.

Foreword by Marlena Graves
Introduction: A Question Before Remembering
1. How We Got Here
Practice: Narrating a Memory
2. The Art of Noticing Shells
Practice: Journaling
3. Living with Shells
Practice: Staging a Memory
4. The Weight of Shells
Pause
5. Every Memory Belongs
Practice: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography
6. Remembering Who We Are
Practice: Finding Sabbath Rest
7. Coming Back Again
Practice: The Examen for Memories
8. I've Felt Like This Before
Practice: Writing Your Own Psalm
9. A Familiar Table
Practice: Opening Your Table
10. Remember, Be Here Now
Pause
11. A Future Memory
Pause
12. A Closing Post-It Note
Acknowledgments
Notes