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Flashback on History (08/09/2021, 3:00 PM CST)

I found this in a note which I usually do when I see something worth recording and remembering. Here it goes - "The Romans are not great inventors but the Apple of their day. Apple didn't invent Smartphones, nor did they create the first music download and electronic tablets were around for more than a decade before the Ipad. But what Apple did do was take existing concepts and develop them in ways that hadn't been done before. The Romans did exactly the same thing. They took an idea and developed it to the next level."                                                      

The Phoenicians were master seafarers and traders of antiquity who created robust networks...best known for creating the alphabet. They occupied a narrow tract of land along the coast of modern Syria, Lebanon, and northern Israel.

 The ancient Greeks adopted their alphabet from the Phoenicians. Both were seafaring people and eager to trade not only ideas. Most important was the alphabet. It enabled a system of writing by which they could record their transactions. As with other ideas they borrowed, the Greeks made improvements, increasing the number of letters by adding vowels. This happened sometime around the beginning of the 8th century B.C. (The Alphabet and Writing)

This tells us that there is that human nature to seek independence but the reality is we are always dependent on one another and as the writer, John Donne wrote, "no man is an island entirely of itself, every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. " 

The truth is we are dependent on Him, the Creator of all things, visible and invisible.