These three verses in Alma chapter 9 read as follows:
Behold, O ye wicked and perverse generation, how have you forgotten the tradition of your father's; yea, how soon you have forgotten the commandments of God.
Do ye not remember our father, Lehi, was brought out of Jerusalem by the hand of God? Do ye not remember that they were all led by him through the wilderness?
And have ye forgotten so soon how many times he delivered our fathers out of the hands of their enemies, and preserved them from being destroyed, even by the hands of their own brethren?
Alma is justifiably concerned that his people remember their traditions, their religious experiences, their struggles and their relief from those struggles. He sees how those memories would affect the choices they are making in the present.
Memory is a strange thing. We remember the oddest things but try to remember an important event and can't. I can sing hundreds of silly songs but I'm foggy about some of the most significant events of my life.
The process of transcribing my mother's letters to our Aunt Mildred has reminded me of that. Time and time again she shares something that I just don't remember at all.
Perhaps we all should keep a diary of the events of each day. All too soon it is just lost.
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