Old School

Classic style! Let's discuss.  I have been listening to old songs from Geoff Moore. (if you don't know who he is, stop reading, go listen to his Live album.. right now. go ahead, I'll wait.) There was something special about that era of Christian Music.  With Audio Adrenaline returning soon, I was left wondering.  Why do we glamorize the old days.

Old days were, at one time, a today.  In those todays, we thought fondly of the old days.  And wished that those todays were as good as those old days.  We always glorify yesterday, as if it were magically perfect an unique?

True, some things will never be the same as it used to be.  My unborn son will NEVER visit the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Nor will he ever fully grasp the weight of their absence.  My deceased Brother-In-Law, Barry, will never give me his special fist-bump again.  Some things will never be like they were.  Good/bad

But for the most part, what we have heightened to "Good 'Ole Days," were at one time a boring, unsatisfying today.  The issue doesn't lie in the quality of today, and No, today's today are not worse than yesterday's today.

The issue is the moment.

It has been said that memories are just snapshots of moments.  Good, bad, happy, sad, indifferent, pain, rejoice, loss.  All these memories are of the moment.  Some moments are longer than others.  I still remember most of the night we lost Barry.  But what I remember most is the moments.  The moments piece together to make the memories.  9/11 is a day of moments.

Today has the potential to be a moment.  Parents strive to make childhood moments.  Children are enjoying and wasting moments.  The elderly are grasping for new ones, all while reminiscing about a life full of moments.  But, the interesting thing is we tend to hold on to the good moments, and release bad ones.  Sure, some bad ones are so strong we can't let go. But the idolizing of Old Days comes from moments.  And for the most part, these moments are good.

We filter old times through this rose colored glass.  This is why we remember ex-girlfriends in greater light than they deserve.  This is why old TV shows seemed better than they were.  And childhood movies haven't aged as well as we had hoped.  Which is fine.  Yesterday was full of great moments.

But SO IS TODAY!

This is the day the Lord has made, rejoice and be glad in it! While there is nothing wrong with recalling moments, we cannot live there.  We must live in today, old days are written, forgive those who need it, ask for forgiveness from those you hurt.

Yesterday had it's own troubles, like today. But we choose to remember how good those were.  So choose to make today as good as you remember yesterday.

Today will eventually be a "Good Ole Day" so make it full of good moments!