The Good Old Days
Psalm 102:3, 27
"My days pass away like smoke…..But you are the same, and your years have no end."
Times change.
It's a brutal truth of life that time just never stands still. Sometimes that's a good thing. Time often can erase pain and traumatic memories. Frequently, though, time changes places and people for the worse, until they become nothing more than fond memories, nostalgia, a conscious yearning for good old days that may never have existed.
Nathan Dougherty, a member of the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, was present at the beginning: he played when the first forward pass was thrown in a UT game. His association with the university carried him into the SEC and the modern age of college sports. He saw many changes.
According to Russ Bebb in The Big Orange, Dougherty was there in 1907 when George Levene came in as UT's first salaried football coach for the princely sum of $750 a season. Perhaps with a wistful note in his voice, Dougherty told Bebb, "Over the years the conferences have taken athletics out of the hands of the students and put it in the hands of the faculty and then made the university itself responsible for the athletic program."
The "good old days" are gone forever, though. The game Dougherty played and the atmosphere in which he played no longer exist. Times change.
The current of your life sweeps you along until you realize you've lived long enough to have a past----and parts of it you remember fondly. The stunts you pulled with your high school pals. Your first apartment. The dance with your first love. The special beach vacation (and only you know why it was special).
Good times, good memories----and in our uncertain world, you cling to the old, familiar ways for the stability they provide. The only anchor that really holds, though, is God. God is life's lone constant.
Times change; God doesn't. In our every-changing and bewildering world, God is the only constant.
Jennifer Aylor
God Bless the Vols Devotions
"My days pass away like smoke…..But you are the same, and your years have no end."
Times change.
It's a brutal truth of life that time just never stands still. Sometimes that's a good thing. Time often can erase pain and traumatic memories. Frequently, though, time changes places and people for the worse, until they become nothing more than fond memories, nostalgia, a conscious yearning for good old days that may never have existed.
Nathan Dougherty, a member of the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, was present at the beginning: he played when the first forward pass was thrown in a UT game. His association with the university carried him into the SEC and the modern age of college sports. He saw many changes.
According to Russ Bebb in The Big Orange, Dougherty was there in 1907 when George Levene came in as UT's first salaried football coach for the princely sum of $750 a season. Perhaps with a wistful note in his voice, Dougherty told Bebb, "Over the years the conferences have taken athletics out of the hands of the students and put it in the hands of the faculty and then made the university itself responsible for the athletic program."
The "good old days" are gone forever, though. The game Dougherty played and the atmosphere in which he played no longer exist. Times change.
The current of your life sweeps you along until you realize you've lived long enough to have a past----and parts of it you remember fondly. The stunts you pulled with your high school pals. Your first apartment. The dance with your first love. The special beach vacation (and only you know why it was special).
Good times, good memories----and in our uncertain world, you cling to the old, familiar ways for the stability they provide. The only anchor that really holds, though, is God. God is life's lone constant.
Times change; God doesn't. In our every-changing and bewildering world, God is the only constant.
Jennifer Aylor
God Bless the Vols Devotions