Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2:11, NIV)
I went to see New Moon with my sister and my uncle (he beautifully bought the tickets atFandango.com) the premiere date. There were many activities, and a current surge in the school library for a New Moon calendar. My sister lobbied for me to ace the quizzes (I did, but I only received candy and a Doritos). My sister, as stoked as she was, even brought a vampire t-shirt! (not the flagship movie!) With the date (and I missed Christian Club, lame, I know) on hand, we saw the movie with a few hundred more.
If you are reading this, you may be rolling your pretty eyes right now and scoffing, “sparkling vampires!?”. I GET IT! You are surprised that this move has even made the annals of history. That, however, is not the point! There were many movies of that right now, such as Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula 2000, Queen of the Damned, etc., even if vampires didn’t sparkle you to death. And look at American Werewolf in Paris even if there wasn’t a six-packed, half-Native American dude who only modeled in! Look at retro, it’s famous now! Look at the cycle of water, it always goes with the near-same residence times! Look at crazy people, they’ve been always in the olden years! (By the way, don’t give Twilightnites such a hard time!)
Going back, the Teacher (if it is Qohelet, we do not know; if it is Solomon, maybe, God only knows) would’ve think that rock music, punk rock, and Kathy Bates’ rendition of Psycho or Madea’s antics would’ve happened back in his time. Under the sun, what is of worth? What can become knew, if not in God only? (And what can become of heavily pop-culture-referenced devotions?) It all comes back, just like America’s Next Top Model. (Why I watched the show still remains a mystery. I just liked the pictures…?)
Is it even knew that there were “diaries” of some sort in the olden days? Yet, is it better to know that God makes all things new. For this is what Isaiah 48:6 says: “You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you admit them? From now on I will tell you of new things, of things unknown to you. (NIV)”