Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Tim Gustafson wrote our reading, and he titled it Generation Now.

Never trust anyone over 30, said young environmentalist Jack Weinberg in 1964.

His comment stereotyped an entire generation, something Weinberg later regretted.

Looking back, he said, something I said off the top of my head became completely distorted

and misunderstood.

Have you heard disparaging comments aimed at millennials, or vice versa?

Ill thoughts directed from one generation toward another can cut both ways. Surely, there's a better way.

Although he was an excellent king, Hezekiah showed a lack of concern for another generation. When as a young

man, Hezekiah was struck with a terminal illness, he cried out to God for his life. God gave him

15 more years. But when Hezekiah received the terrible news that his children would one day be

taken captive, the royal tears were conspicuously absent.

He thought, will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?

It may have been that Hezekiah didn't apply the passion he had for his own well-being to the

next generation.

God calls us to a love that dares to cross the lines dividing us.

The older generation needs the fresh idealism and creativity of the younger,

who in turn can benefit from the wisdom and experience of their predecessors.

This is no time for snarky memes and slogans,

but for thoughtful exchange of ideas.

We're in this together.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading

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