Change

Change

I think it’s interesting that every generation thinks they are the one living in the “end times,” and there have been several episodes throughout history where people have given up all their worldly goods and gone to the “mountain top” to await the “second coming.”  I’ll bet many of us have witnessed the same phenomenon in our own families, I know it was that way for my father’s generation and it was also true for the generation of his father and now, I’m starting to hear the same rhetoric from my generation!  Could it be that we become so convinced that the world couldn’t possibly go on without us that we begin to think the end of the world must be near?

I think “change” has a lot to do with it.  Most folks are averse to “change” and the more things change the more averse we become which, by implication, means we become more averse as we get older since we experience more change.  If you are a “baby boomer,” think back to how your parents reacted to Elvis Presley and Rock & Roll music; they hated it.  It was a disagreeable change from the music they grew up with.  Just think of all the other changes that you grew up with but were new and alien to your parents!  As I get older I’m beginning to see what they were facing.  I don’t like change either!

Do you think that this might be God’s way of easing the passage?  In the natural scheme of things, as we age, the world becomes more and more disagreeable until we reach a point that we are not so averse to leaving it!  “Beam me up Scotty.”  In either case, I refuse to fall victim to this syndrome.  I’m hanging around to the bitter end!  Hmmm’, why is the end referred to as bitter?