I went to the post office the other day to mail a package.
The young lady at the counter asked me the usual questions, and then I told her I was mailing a "LP" and wanted to know if it qualified for the media rate.
"LP? What's that?" she asked with a straight face.
"A record"
"I don't know what that is," she said.
I then I realized I needed to use the new hip term, "A vinyl," I said, while motioning with my finger a record spinning and imitating one of those old phonographs in my best Beatles, "we're so sorry, uncle Albert" imitation.
"Oh, " she said. I think at last she understood and I got the media rate.
I thanked her with a smile, for making me feel old.
Times change, I realized, every day objects from my past disappear from the vocabulary of the current generation.
But one thing that never changes is the truth of God's word. Even a quick walk through the book of Proverbs will seem as relevant today as it did thousands of years ago when it was written.
And for that, I'm thankful!
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8 (NIV)
