You Know Best, Amen

We can learn from the past, but we cannot live in the past. God’s creation is in the process of development. The movement is continuous. The change is constant. Inevitably, the world we leave will be a different world than the one we came into.

A married couple had just returned home from a wedding anniversary celebration and the wife was feeling very nostalgic. “You used to kiss me tenderly,” she said. So he leaned over and tenderly kissed her. “You used to hold my hand,” she said. So he reached over and took her hand in his. “You used to gently bite my ear lobe,” she said. Immediately he got up and began walking out of the room. “Where are you going?” she asked impatiently. “To get my teeth,” he replied. Off with the old; on with the new. We can cherish past events. But we cannot relive past events. We can revere our traditions. But we cannot freeze them. We cannot wrap…