Generation Gap

The gifts have all been unwrapped and the last of the leftovers are hanging out in the fridge and in cookie tins and Ziploc bags... their hours/days numbered.  Now we have all settled into the post-Christmas relaxed state, that we look forward to each year.

This Christmas, Jason gave Timmy a basic Kindle to support his reading habit and his love of all things gadgety.  It was a big hit!  So here I sit on the sofa typing on my laptop, sitting between Timmy and his Grandpa, both of whom are reading books on their Kindles.  So much for the generational technology gap!  :)  Actually, what sticks out to me in this moment is that for Timmy, today's technology is his native language, while it is a second and foreign language for those of us who have been around awhile longer.  He can't imagine a world without microwaves, computers, electronic gaming systems, DVD players/Blu-Ray, cell phones with texting and data plans, and GPS systems.  He CAN'T IMAGINE IT!  I'm just trying to catch up and not get too far behind!  

I read something today about how one of the reasons that the original Star Wars movie achieved such box office success was that it debuted in a pre-VCR/DVD, pre HBO, pre Netflix world where if you didn't watch a movie at the theater, you may not get the opportunity to see it again unless it came on television and you were free to watch it that day at that time!  Thus, people went to see the film again and again and again in the theater, never imagining that technological advances would one day be such that they could download a high-definition, digital copy of it to their personal lap-top computer or touch-screen tablet at a moment's notice and watch it at their leisure while curled up on a sofa or flying on a plane or riding in a car.  For my Timmy, however, and those in the Mosaic generation or younger - this is how the world works and always has. AMAZING!  

More amazing still - The God of the universe and his unfathomable gift of salvation, as detailed in the Holy Bible, are just as relevant to this upcoming generation as it was to mine, and all those who came before.  Truly, the Great I AM doesn't change with culture shifts or scientific advances, or industrial revolutions. 

• "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I AM." - John 8:58 NIV
• "...Grace and peace to you from Him who is and who was and who is to come..." Revelation 1:4 NIV
• "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: 'With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.'" 2 Peter 3:8 NIV