Nostalgia

In the car on the way home from ENGAGE with some folks the song Forever Young by Youth Group came on the radio (I don't know what station we were listening to, and I take no responsibility for it - I also shared another beautiful moment over the weekend when there were five girls in the car and Richard Marks's Right Here Waiting for You came on, and we sung our soppy hearts out). Anyway, Rory Shiner had been speaking at the conference on Eternity and the bodily resurrection, and I recalled the time the Forever Young clip was played before an evangelistic sermon along those lines at a previous church.

I do love this video - it's so nostalgic, and apparently it features real footage from the "early-1970s Australian youth television program GTK, showing Australia's first skateboarding contest being held at the Coca-Cola factory in Frenchs Forest, New South Wales in 1975" (from Wikipedia). I wasn't a teenager in the 1970s, but skateboarding was still around when I was. The church I was at used to meet in a high school building, and after church all the boys would head off to the outdoor basketball court to do their skateboard thing, and us girls, if we hadn't gathered up as many toddlers as we could to play with, would sometimes go and stand shyly around the edges of the court, in our puffed-sleeved florals, and watch. And sometimes, in a brave and awkward moment, one of the guys would give us a go. It takes me back.