I have been thinking a lot about Legos lately as I watch my baby play with his brand new first set. What would a boy’s life be like without them? Our home certainly would be a much more boring and uncreative place! As the massive collection seems to grow at an unprecedented rate, the creations only get better and better. It started with my old collection one that I am sure that my dad, the sonless generation before me, enjoyed better than I. Then as my boy’s birthdays and numerous holidays have past, the sets grew bigger and better. If only the boys would put the creativity and ingenuity that they put into their Lego creations into their daily life. They would be super geniuses!!!
My only problem seems to be is that as they build the massive creations they refuse to take them apart again. Once they are put together, they stand as monuments, a painstaking job completed with pride. I try to encourage them to take them apart and make new creations but they are adamant that this is how it is meant to be and there they sit. I will continue to try to teach them that all things can be made new. That new things can spring from the old and it is worth the risk.
It seems God has been trying to teach that lesson to me after a long, sickly, hard spiritually dry winter. With his help I will try to rebuild myself into a new creature, a joyful one, a trusting and faithful one.
Maybe also I will head upstairs and try out the Legos and see what the fuss is all about :0)
