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Remember when, even though Christ was not always accepted, He was still reverenced? Remember when, it was politically correct to fear God? Remember when God was not sought, but wasn't considered dead? What do you remember?
Love & blessings...Tender Reed
As a child I felt the power of the Church to shame hellions when they promoted the error of sin. Now we don't shame them, we keep silent and doubt our own principles. The hellions are emboldened by our wimpy behavior.
We need more Truett Cathy's not afraid to speak God's truth.
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I remember when it was ok to sing the Little Drummer boy and songs about baby Jesus in elementary. In 3rd grade we had something in groups (I think it was for Christmas). The group I was in got to do something that involved the baby Jesus. Now it's "wrong" to even say Merry Christmas or even have candy canes in some schools for Christmas.
I remember in 4th grade Mr. T. even mentioned to us about God one time (I think a student asked something).
I remember singing, "This is my Father's World" in grade school.
I remember Red Skelton closing his show with, "Good night and may God bless!"
I remember when astronauts read from Genesis while orbiting the moon.
Remember when people in the church loved & cared for each other instead of taking pot shots at the weak ones? Remember when the lepers of society were accepted & loved in worship services? It's been a long time. Where are the good Samaritans these days?
David R. - That scripture reading of Genesis by astronaut Frank Borman was the best part of the space program. Seeing that little blue marble of Earth rising up over the moons' rough horizon while being reminded of who created it was an epiphany that would be hard to match short of seeing Christ in the flesh.
You might be surprised -- a couple of years ago, Houston woke up the astronauts with Chris Tomlin's "Indescribable". :)
I remember when I went caroling one year for Christmas. The first - and only - time. I remember when Christmas songs were actually about Christ. I cannot stand listening to radio stations that play "carols" they're all about Jingle Bells, Santa Claus, and White Christmases.
Even our churches have forsaken the hymns. I would love to mix in a traditional hymn in with our contemporary worship. Times change, but the classics remain.
I remember when no one had qualms about reciting every word of the Pledge of Allegiance. I remember when abortions and alternate lifestyles were shocking. It wasn't that long ago...
~~Becka
I remember when it was shameful to be drunk and promiscuous especially as a woman,
Not something you,d gloat about on Facebook.
I remember when vanity was seen as a weakness not a lifestyle choice.
I too remember teachers praying with us and reminding us you cannot run from God.
It was ok to have a prayer room or chapel in hospitals etc and not turn it into
A quiet room with no Christian symbols to offend.
I remember when it was safe to roam and play all day long as children!
I remember when I was little, christmas was about Jesus.
Last year we had a christmas market in our town, (hundreds of stands with christmas stuff) But Christians weren't allowed to even have 1 stand. So no Jesus, only evil Santa :(
I remember when you could run and play with your friends in the neighborhood until dark or you heard a whistle from your father to come home. I remember when you could leave your car unlocked without worrying about it getting broken into. I remember when our leaders would turn to God in a time of crisis and weren't afraid to tell the country that they did so. I remember when children could pray at their lunch period or talk with other children about God without teachers telling them they couldn't because it offends the other children.
Remember when people wrote real lyrics
And every song was not accompanied by a soft porn video?
Would ,less of me, or ,one day at a time, or even ,starry starry night, make the charts these days?
Ps I know there are exceptions,
Some lovely new Christian songs like mercies in disguise,
And Leonard Cohen etc.
But they seem to be the exceptIon.
Remember even tv shows tried to have a moral eg the waltons?
Remember when celebrity was not the highest goal of most youngsters? And saying marriage is for a man and wife did not mean you were a fundamental bigoted fool?
I was talking to the Lord about these very things last night after I went to bed.
When I was in high school we had pastors from the churches in town come to give a talk in assemblies.
I remember being taught "He's got the whole world in His hands" at VBS when I was little. I don't hear that song anymore.
I remember when we left our doors unlocked growing up.
I remember when prayer was in school, and when it got taken out.
God Bless and Love,
FW
Good thread, Tender Reed!
I remember as a child in the 60's it was safe to walk home with a parent from the show at midnight and there was no concern about it being unsafe being out at night.
I remember in high school what a shock it was to find out that a girl lost her virginity.
I remember when a couple was **** it was shameful and they tried to hide it.
I remember it was the norm for the mother to be home when the child came home from school instead of being a latch key kid.
I remember going into a restaurant and when children started screaming on top of their lungs they were disciplined by their parents to be quiet instead of ignoring the child's tantrums.
I remember when there were manners, and people would say "please" and "thank you" and a man would watch his language in front of a lady.
I remember when children would respect and obey their parents instead of talking back to them.
I remember in junior high school when a young lady would be disciplined by the principal if she wore her skirt higher than two inches above her knees.
I remember when people had respect for senior citizens by helping them across the street instead of forcing them to step out of the way when passing them on the sidewalk.
And just think, and all of this was as little as 40-50 years ago
Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1: 29-32
I remember only having one phone in our house growing up...a dial phone...we got a 2nd one...I thought my parents suddenly got rich!
I remember when gas was 45 cents a gallon....!! And ice cream at a local store was 7 cents!
I remember holidays with my parents and brothers growing up...now we rarely gather.
I remember bomb scare drills in elementary school...everyone went in the halls and sat on the floor in a tucked position.
I remember when I was 3yrs old and climbing out of my crib at night, and my mother putting me back in.
Thank you Tender Reed....love reading everyone's memories...God Bless, Jan
Tender Reed,
Yes...i remember a lot myself.....
I remember when in Sunday School we would sing "Deep and Wide" and little girls still wore the tights with the black patent leather buckle dress shoes, with a bonnet on Easter Sunday.
I remember walking down to the candy store with our friends when i was 6 and you could buy a bag of candy for 10 cents....including the candy necklaces.
Also, i remember when we would go to bed at nights with our front door open and the screen closed, but not locked.
I remember when there was still Drug Stores with fountain drinks and milkshakes and all you needed to know in the world could be found out in local coffee shops.
I remember when it was the cool thing to wear saddle shoes...i even had a few pairs *lol*
I remember when people spent time reading books, working hard, and spending time with families and friends instead of wasting their time watching reality tv shows or posting narcissistic stuff on the internet.
Is that a run-on sentence? 
You know what's really sad? I don't turn 40 until next year....and I have never experienced most of what you all are posting. 
I have never, ever seen a teacher or principal pray at school. The closest thing would be our moment of silence after the space shuttle exploded.
I *do* remember saying the pledge of allegiance each morning. And I think when I was in 5th grade, and we sang in the chorus at the Christmas program, that we did sing songs like, "Oh come all ye faithful". But things changed pretty rapidly after that (that would have been 1982).
I remember when shops still had things like "Merry Christmas" painted on the windows...now they always say, "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" only...and there's a totally different vibe in the community during the holidays than there used to be. Christmas doesn't even *feel* like Christmas anymore. 
I remember Christmas parties at school! And one year, during Hanukkah, a little Jewish boy in our class, his mom came in and cooked latkes on a hotplate right in our classroom and we got to play hanukkah games, etc., and learn all about the holiday. It's one of my best school memories. Ever.
TeenQueen,
One little bright spot to if we have more time to work before He calls us, is I have tickets to see Cohen in November. Not that I'd be like one of the invited wedding guests and say "I can't go..I've got concert tickets" LOL!
I could say that there are a lot of old people here at RITANow, but that wouldn't be fair. As the point of this thread was to highlight how much change we have all seen in recent history. This isn't about anyones pet dinosaur named dino. But I am given to understand that a few of us here new Moses personally. Sorry Tom. Did I say that out loud? Easier to get forgiveness than permission, isn't it. But indeed, most of us are from a different generation. A general sense of well being, security and times of sacred thankfulness are indeed mostly a thing of the past. Thanks for the input, anymore memories???
Love & blessings...Tender Reed
Change we have seen in recent history...
I think the greatest change I have seen in recent history is people pulling away from people, becoming more focused on self, retreating into a tech/virtual world that doesn't reflect who we are as people---our personalities seem to just mesh and become one big blob...sorry, I too have been around 50 plus years and have seen many changes during my lifetime.
It seems that many people are satisfied with chit-chat and not with deep, meaningful conversations. It's like the supper hour, talking and connecting with each other. I continued the tradition of the family supper hour with my four children and they speak of how important that was in our family. Sadly, the shift to watching TV, videos, being on the computer and texting is quite common now during suppertime---I see it in my children's lives as well.
Conversations and connecting during the supper hour...big changes in that department.
I remember a lot of the same things everyone mentioned here.
A also remember not wanting to wait to grow up and get out on my own, to have my own place, life, wife, family and a good job, and a great future of living here in this country. For being a kid than becoming a young man for me was not all that great, although it had its moments.
I saw the promise of the American dream, some got the dream life, most people i knew, even then did not, but landed someware inbetween a rock and a hard spot. Although i didnt come to learn that later on, that life for those i knew was full of potholes too on the road to the so called "good life".
The American Dream...Its like unto someone who is into basketball living in the getto, trying to get that all important big break, to be seen by the scout, to get that one in a million chance at becomeing a big star.
Life is not all peaches and cream, it never really was, never can be here down on earth. The media has sold us all a bill of goods, the American Dream is a lie at worst, or is now just plain dead. Yah some get the good life, most have to live paycheck to paycheck, endure ethnic/racial descrimination, have to take on huge debts to make it happen. Then get into drugs and alcohol to just keep going, to stay asleep, to deny the reality that is pressing ever closer. Others get just ripped off, get it all taken away through devorce and family or health issues. Yeah it was a nice dream, now its all over.
Every civ rises and falls. This one is at the falling stage, no other way to look at it now.
Now i just cant wait to be going up in the Rapture to be with Jesus in Heaven, to have everlasting joy and life with him and to be reunited with loved ones. This world is still a beuatiful place, its just more fallen, full of sin, calamity and hopelessness.
In heaven there awaits an eternity for Jesus to make it up to us what we lost or failed to acquire here on earth. Best of all all that goodness that awaits us will never ever be taken away.
Blessing to you, See you all soon, may the Lord bless, protect and keep you in this dark fallen world till then.
Leroy
I remember a song by that title, T.R. . "Remember when" . .
I 'picture' Jesus saying to us: ~~"Remember when we met . . I can't remember when I DIDN'T love you" ~~
He so loved us first ~~ and proved it Supremely . . Our God is amazing always!! We love Him so!
Amen...Preach it Donna!
O the moment when the Spirt first came to me, and washed me clean in the blood of Jesus, in 1980...thats my greatest remember when.
When your love came down:
Over the mountains and the sea
Your river runs with love for me
And I will open up my heart
And let the healer set me free
I'm happy to be in the truth
And I will daily lift my hands
For I will always sing
Of when your love came down
[Chorus]
I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever
Over the mountains and the sea
Your river runs with love for me
And I will open up my heart
And let the healer set me free
I'm happy to be in the truth
And I will daily lift my hands
For I will always sing
Of when your love came down
He loves me, He loves me, oh how amazing, i will never understand it all, wonder above all wonders that He loves me!!
There really is No other God like Him.
Leroy
Tender Reed,
Recent changes? I remember buying my first computer in 1997. Now there is a child in the family with an i-pad who only learned to talk a short while back. She uses it to play her favorite videos.
I remember when songs were so memorable people could hum them. They actually had a melody back then and sounded different from the last song played!
I remember when it didn't matter if the singer was ugly as all get-out because their voice was the only thing that mattered.
I remember when voters could name the top people in government office.
I remember in junior high (circa 1975) one of the boys in my grade had his shirt untucked. He was told to tuck in his shirt by the principal, but the boy wouldn't. He was sent home. For not tucking in his shirt. These days we have completely lost our respect for authority. This boy had little respect for authority but it was so shocking back then that it has stuck with me ever since.
Our family locked our house when we went on vacation every year. That was it.
It's scary how fast we have gone downhill. And sad.
I'll be 40 next year, but I do remember a lot of things you have all mentioned. I remember: playing outside all day long til Dad whistled for us to come in, saying the Lord's Prayer and doing the Health Hustle each morning to start the day along with a moment's silence, doing Christmas recitals at school every year, being so excited to get a copy of the New Testament in Grade 4 or 5... I had never seen one before and I don't remember if I read it or not, but it was a book, and I am a book worm! :) I remember sitting in my doctor's office as a little girl, reading children's bible stories and Uncle Arthur's stories and learning morals, values and manners from them,.(and my parents) I remember knowing that if I didn't behave, I was going to be in big trouble when I got home, my parents were not necessarily strict but they disciplined us when necessary. I remember my mom reading giving us a bedtime bath, reading us a story and then going to the neighbour's house three doors down for coffee. (we would never have dreamed of getting out of bed!) I remember the neighbours looking out for each other's kids and even having other parents tell us off if we were misbehaving. I don't remember the doors in our home ever being locked until I was at least 8 or 9, and I can recall mornings where the windows on our car would be down and dad would be a little ticked that the seats were dewy. :) I remember sitting on the floor in the backseat of the car when we drove long distances to go camping, playing with barbies, or playing the alphabet game with my family as we drove (find letters on signs, license plates in alphabetical order) and laying in our sleeping bags in the back of our station wagon at the drive in. I also remember going to restaurants and seeing other families having dinner without kids acting up, playing video games or watching portable dvd players and managing to get through an hour or two. I remember when Christmas was "the most wonderful time of the year." :)
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