Old & New

Here is a "funny" for today:

From "What Your Sleep Position Reveals," by Samuel Dunkell, M.D.,
Reader's Digest, July 1977, pp. 137-39.

This guy has me pegged!  How does he know so much about me?!

One of my favorite things to do is look for old magazines and books.  Why? Because they contain such wisdom and truth, and aren't watered-down with banality like many of today's publications.  We "educated" folk of this modern era often believe there's nothing to learn from generations past, or that it's not hip to fall behind in what's current.  Solomon wasn't joking when he stated, "There is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

My life would be dreadfully ordinary without these nuggets of humor from the past.  We can enjoy contemporary reading and also give ourselves permission to indulge in bygone simplicity.  The two intermingle nicely, and we discover that those unenlightened fogies said things worth pondering, perhaps challenging our own enlightenment.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure I fully buy into the description of the "Prone Sleeper," but I had fun reading it and indulging in a few minutes of escape from today's bustle.  Every generation thinks we have it all figured out, and according to Solomon and the rest of the Word, everything has always been figured out, just not by us. We look to the One Who was there in the beginning (John 1:1-5).  Let's rest in that today, and be content in the little hunks of light that He bestows that bring us joy.