Nothing New Under the Sun

Have you ever heard the phrase "There's nothing new under the sun?" I used it for the first time today when my daughter told me that her best friend received a record player for Christmas. I used to listen to my Dad's record player and I thought it was so cool, even though it had been replaced by cassettes and compact discs.  And that is when it really clicked. Several more instances flashed through my head that perfectly illustrated the fact that there is nothing new under the sun, just a repetitious death and rebirth process. I thought of the retro Atari game I almost bought for Matt's boys. I pondered the Pride Cycle in the Book of Mormon. I recalled the Chinese who once murdered their now cherished infant daughters. I saw my mother's bell bottoms, then my pegged pants, then back to flare bottom jeans, and right back to present day skinny jeans and pegged pants. I couldn't overlook Page's new polaroid camera sitting on the couch that she received this year for Christmas. Everything jumped out at me screaming "There's nothing new under the sun!" Everything is just a continual cycle of death and rebirth. Just like our cells as I penned about in Scrooge.

So if there is nothing new under the sun, why aren't we better at predicting the future? Seems like we should be able to look at yesterday and accurately predict tomorrow--generally, not specifically speaking. I'm confident the real estate market will crash. As will the banks. I'm not worried though. They always bounce back. Everything is always as it should be and everything always works out for our eventual good. So come what may and love it!