Remember and Live

Memory, Identity, and Faithfulness

What we remember shapes how we live.

In Remember and Live: Memory, Identity, and Faithfulness, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the spiritual importance of remembering as a central practice of faith. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and deeply personal stories, this study invites readers to see memory not as nostalgia or regret, but as a living act of obedience.

From family stories and national history to suffering, healing, communion, and resurrection hope, Schmitt traces how God calls His people to remember truthfully — and how holy forgetting can free us from what no longer gives life. Memory, in this biblical vision, becomes a guide rather than a burden, forming identity, deepening compassion, and sustaining faith over time.

Written for individuals and small groups, Remember and Live offers thoughtful teaching, reflective questions, poems, and practical exercises that encourage gentle honesty and spiritual maturity. It is especially suited for those navigating loss, transition, aging, or seasons of reflection.

This is not a book about perfect memory.

It is a book about faithful remembering.

And in learning to remember well, we learn how to live — with gratitude, courage, and hope.