Bad memories ,Good memories. ( Lamentations 3 v 16 - 33 )

Things were awful ,death, destruction, all appeared hopeless,he declares, my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is  CP Lamentations 3 v 17 - 18,C Wright comments,''Beaten, broken,imprisoned, mauled, shot,mocked, trampled...reeling under such a battery of injuries the Man reaches the point of total despair''.he calls this ,' Bad memory'. it is very hard to forget bad memories,or to escape their depressing wounds .What does the writer do?,he replaces them  with , 'Good memories',Joseph did that, when faced with what his brothers had done to him ,( Read the account of his life in Genesis 37 -50 ) ,but he also knew his God, and why it had happened,Here is what he said to  these wicked brothers,'' Even though you intended to do harm to me,God intended it for good''.God is sovereign in the best of times ,and in the worst of times, it is a hard lesson to learn, We can let the bad memories,rule our lives,and destroy us,or we can focus on the good memories ,on a God who loves us,a God who  is good,and will work everything out for his children's good. ( Romans 8 v 28 )