Modernity with its efficiency and improved and enhanced products makes our lives – I was going to say better but I’m not sure. Last evening I was looking out a window at the snow and realized I might never again see Jack Frost’s artwork on window panes. I loved how lacy frosty patterns of hoar would start in the corner of a window and work their way toward the center. I would put my finger on it and watch it melt only to see it refreeze when I took my finger away. Few children today will ever see that.
In the summertime on hot August days my Dad and I would go to the corner grocery store where there was a bright red metal box in the corner. We would lift the lid and peer inside at a variety of sodas immersed in icy cold water. Oh the utter joy of putting your hand in that frigid tank to slowly fish out a Nehi orange. Carefully we would pry off the cap without bending it so we could remove the cork liner. For the rest of the day I would wear the cap on my shirt by putting my shirt between the cap and the pushed-in cork.
Perhaps new and improved isn’t always better? But when it comes to new and improved you and me we cannot argue. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” II Corinthians 5:17. I doubt anyone of us will ever long for the old. The old just isn’t that grand. The new will be out of this world. Awesome.
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