Coping With Change

Abstract

"And there is nothing more exhausting. Even young men and women grow weary. But continuous change is here to stay so we all have to learn to cope. "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be ..... Think back to just 25 years ago (when I was sweet sixteen and hardly ever been kissed- sexual naivete in 16-year olds is certainly a thing ofthe past...).ln 1966 we made comb-cases for sailors at Christian Endeavour 'Floating' evenings; we occasionally substituted a trendy song from Youth Praise for a hymn from the new Baptist Hymn Book; we wondered whether to drop Afternoon Sunday School and thought Lady Chatterley's Loiter was outrageous; Real Christians didn't take Sunday Papers or go into a shop on the Sabbath and evangelical Christians knew that number 79 in CSSM was "I am feeding on the living bread .. " ("Let's have the girls asking the question and the boys replying .. ") God was still addressed in Thee's and Thou's and I was taken to one side by the minister when I turned up for church in a jumper (although still with a tie)- "Would you go to see the Queen dressed like that? .. ""