Vinyl

Save those vinyl record albums and spindle players.  They are coming back.  "What?" ask we old-timers.  That is so yesterday, right?  Wrong.  It is only yesterday for us who grew up with them.  It is a brand new thing for younger people.  "Old" is a relative term.  A younger generation is not returning to the past.  It never was their past.  It is new to them.  Maybe it might make us think about other things we rejected that have value still.  God for instance.  The Boomers grew up with God.  God was a norm, like vinyl records.  God got to be an old idea, not worth keeping around, not useful, replaced by something else.  God is a memory of earlier times.  Then someone younger comes along and says, "I have discovered God!"  They seem happy, fulfilled with a new meaning and purpose in their life.  They are better people for this discovery.  And we who dropped the God stuff?  Maybe some things are worth keeping around.  I am glad God did not treat me like a vinyl record and dump me a long time ago.