What Was Your Favorite Childhood Toy???

December 10, 2023
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
There’s a song, “Where Have all the Toys Gone?”  Well, if there isn’t such a song with those lyrics, there should be.
 
Tonka, the manly word that made little boys dream of being a man’s man.  Slot race car sets that, with its speed, makes a little boy a race car driver when he sneaks into the garage, opens the car door, and slides in behind the wheel.  Zoom!  Zoom!  The checkered flag is just ahead!  How about the Magic 8 Ball?  Ask a question, turn it over, and an answer floats up into view.  Then the prize of all—a BB gun.  No more pretending to be a cowboy in the wild, wild west.  Now I are one! 😊
 
So now, I walk through the toy department at the store thinking, “Surely there’s a cool toy for my grandsons.”  Secretly, I’m hoping to find a toy I can enjoy with them, maybe “Rock-em-Sock-em.”  But alas, only computer games that require no imagination and only exercise your thumbs.  If evolutionists are correct (they are not) maybe man will evolve into beings with big heads and big thumbs.
 
Of course, I’m writing from a man’s perspective.  For little girls, it’s all about Barbie and doll houses.  For me, Barbie was good for standing on the train track and my American Flyer sent her flying. 😊  Don’t get the wrong idea.  I didn’t have a Barbie. It was my sisters’. 😊 😊
 
1st Corinthians 13:11 tells all of us, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood away.”
 
With that being said, don’t focus on a toy-filled Christmas.  Spend your Christmas with Jesus and receive the best gift of all—eternal life!
 
Love in Christ,
Pastor Allan
 
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