When I wrote and published my book at Amazon, I hoped that older folks like me would want to read it. It has much in it that would interest them and bring some remembrance of their own and perhaps help them realize God has led them too. But I was wrong! I have discovered that most older folks  have not entered the high technology age. Some have their computers but only use them to keep up with their families in E-mail. Many don’t have computers at all and very few of them have Kindles or any of the tablets.

Why do you think that is the case? These people remember not having lights in their homes or music they couldn’t listen to while walking, but they could join in singing around a piano. Nearly everyone had a piano in their homes. For instance, I remember listening to my dad playing the piano. Sometimes we would sing along. He was a pastor and would often bring his whole congregation into a sing-along time. We would sing the old hymns like “Sweet Hour of Prayer” or “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” but we’d sing the songs of the day like “Shine on Harvest Moon” or “I’ll be Loving You, Always” too.

We read books too, good books such as “Anne of Green Gables” or “Moby Dick”, books that are still read today. When I ask older folks why they haven’t paid attention to the high tech stuff they say, “I like things to stay the same. Computers and things like that are too much for me. I guess that part is true. I find that much about the gizmos we have today is difficult to understand and probably it is best to leave them alone.

But we have entered a new age. Our children will grow up not even knowing we cooked with a wood stove and bathed in wash tubs. They won’t know that we went to school in busses pulled by horses either! Why, they won’t even remember the old washing machines or hanging their clothes on a clothesline outdoors! But they will know the ins and outs of a computer and how nice it is to wonder around on a tablet. And they will be able to get along in this high tech world. It’s true that we are entering a new age. Some of it is good and some of it is bad, but I guess it was the same back in the old days.

God is in control of all things. He knew we would someday be able to talk to anyone with a little box! He knew we would bring the whole world into our living rooms and even chat with people we don’t even know! The best way I believe is to follow him. He’s got something new in the wings, you can bet your life on that!

My clothes dryer played out a couple of weeks ago. I’m still trying to decide whether to get a new one or have the old dryer fixed. It costs $100 just to have a guy show up at the house and knowing that probably puts buying a new one in front of my decision making.

However, that’s not what my blog is about. There’s just something good about hanging clothes outside on a clothesline. Oh I know there is more ironing. The sun just doesn’t make them wrinkle free like a dryer does! But the fresh air. the birds singing and the flowering trees make up for that. I just enjoy going out the door with a basket of wet clothes ready to hang out and If that sounds strange, remember that I started out long ago.

It’s just like my wood stove. I enjoy putting the paper and kindling in the stove and lighting that with a match. As soon as the kindling starts burning, I let all my problems go away and I relax and enjoy my fire. I don’t know but I think of a burning campfire and the past years when we used a wood fire for our only source of heat in the old days.

Time just seems to be going too fast these days. I watch as teenagers walk in the park. They are texting or playing games. not even talking or seeing the flowering trees, the green grass or the blue sky above them. Oh, what they are missing! But the computers, tablets and cell phones are taking the place of the things of nature. I monitor the change of life in my book, He Leadeth me, a Grandmother’s Story. I hope you have read it, You will find it at Amazons book department and can read it on any of your phones or tablets. Yes, we have gone a long way during my lifetime.

But I still see children playing outdoors with their bikes and wagons. and they still  sell lemonade from their lawns. I bought some the other day. The price has gone up. I paid 50 cents and when I was the seller it was only a penny or two!  So perhaps children are the same as they were when I was a youngster. At any rate, I feel sorry for the kids who depend entirely on their cell phones or tablets! Don’t you?