daily java

Daily Java:

You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences of one generation’s sin upon the next. (Jeremiah 32:17)

It is a fact that what we do impacts our children. And that works both ways, good or bad.

My parents generation, what we call the Greatest Generation gave us a good life. They worked hard and saved their money. They sent us to school and did just about everything they could do to help us.

And above all, despite opinions to the contrary, they were for the most part a moral and godly generation. Church attendance was high, we were expected by both them and society at large to behave. It had its problems, but in general it was a good country.

But then my generation came along and challenged all of those values. And our children suffer for it.

It seemed like a good time at the time, but it turned out to not be. In challenging everything our generation stood for, we changed society and we changed our country. We went from being a godly country, One nation under God, to being a country with a lot of self-inflicted problems.

We went from a school system that accomplished something to one that is virtually worthless. We have a society that is in deep and serious trouble. Our children no longer have a society approved moral compass. Our cute little rebellion hurt our children in ways that we will not truly know for years.

What one generation does affects the next. If it is a good generation and does good things, the next generation will benefit. If it is a bad generation and tears down more than it builds, the next generation will be hurt.

God allows us to make our own history. And when we write the history of they baby-boomer generation, it will not be a flattering one.

music today

One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)

I’m listening to a song sung by a guy who has been dead for 40 years.  The song before it, half of those people are dead.

The next song, chances are will also have a bunch of dead people in it.

Now, why am I listening to what seems like a gore-fest? I am listening to oldies radio.
I love oldies radio. The music we listened to as young people is far superior to anything that has come since.

But it is sometimes 40 years old music. It would be like my generation listening to music from the roaring 20’s. or even earlier.

It is strange when you ever get to thinking about it. but so many of our generation’s musicians are gone and buried. Sometimes they died under bad circumstances, overdoses, murder, suicide – all kinds of stuff.

But I still listen. And I suppose that I will until I die.

Like one young person said in a blog recently, my generation has a cultural death-grip on America. Our stuff rules.

Of course, one thing the young man didn’t say was that his generation has not produced a fraction of the absolutely beautiful music that ours did. It was a golden age of music. Unfortunately, nothing written today will really be listened to in 40 years. I know that for a fact because I am into music and listen to a lot of stuff.

I asked my 28 year old son what he thought he would be listening to when he was my age. He said, your music probably. He is a musician but even he acknowledges that his music has no real quality to it. Musicians today are technically light years ahead of musician of my generation, but have not produced the songs that will endure.

Oh, well. An old man ranting. Sooner or later, you have to move on to something else. After all, I got rid of the bell-bottoms and long sideburns.