EXACTL HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIGION?

"He who fight the future has a dangerous enemy." [Soren Kierkegaard]

That was written by a man already old enough to fear the future. However, the young don't see the future as an enemy, but as a friend, for the young shall inherit the earth. They find their poets in pop lyrics, their religion in music concerts, their preachers on stage and on screen, and their philosophers on campuses and in coffee shops. Like every religious movement, they are bound to come into conflict with authority. Somewhat like the youth from another time and place who saw their future sitting at the feet of Buddha, or later walking in the streets of Galilee.

The thing to watch is the historical fact that from out of newness, there always emerges the old. We are all products of all that went before. Something to hold close as each of us -- young and old alike -- move curiously down the yellow brick world into tomorrow.

"Long is the story of our natural world, and we are but a page in it that turns. Glory is written on us, for we are kings. But out kingship is a limited sovereignty, for we are but a part of all things. We stand upon creatures lost in pre-Cambrian slimes and our genes still reflect their ambitions." [Robert Ardrey]

While we sip tomorrow morning's coffee and shake our heads over the headlines, there's not a thing in them that's actually new. Except you...