The Good Ol' Days

 

The good ol' days.  Things were always better back then.  Even the Israelites, newly come from Egypt, thought so. And they were right:  Oh that we had meat to eat!  We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing [oh right, and those bricks were free too, weren't they?], the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.  But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at. [Oh, the manna that God provided when you were hungry, that you only had to collect each morning and eat?  That manna, you mean?]  See Numbers chapter 11. 

They even went so far as to weep. 

Those Israelites, we say.  What was the matter with them?  God just rescued them from slavery, for heaven's sake!   

And then this morning, I was looking online for a white leather couch.  Never mind that all my couches are perfectly fine; they aren't all leather. 

And I'm whining that summer is almost over.  And that the Brewers are so terrible this year.  And that gas prices are going up.  And that I have sand in my teeth from my day at the beach.  

Oh, that I had meat to eat. 

There's nothing new under the sun, is there?  More on this tomorrow.