She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Proverbs 31:25
- They are one of the original toys inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
- The company was founded in Denmark in 1932.
- The new ones can still be used with ones from 1958.
- You can combine six of the eight-studded bricks in 915,103,765 ways.
- There’s a house made from this toy.
- “Leg” and “godt” means “play well”…taking the first two letters from these Danish words gives the name of the famous building blocks that are a favorite toy in my house.
I’m sure you have it figured out…Legos! It doesn’t matter if you’re a year old playing with the Duplo bricks or 100 years old constructing intricate models, all age ranges love them. Did you know that Lego Duplo bricks can connect with regular Lego bricks? I don’t know how that’s possible, but I learned all kinds of information from the Huffington Post. I was getting informed!
My boys would be fine to get rid of just about every toy there is and only have Legos. They have bookcases full of their planes, police stations, trucks, and things I don’t have a clue what they’re supposed to be. I do know they’re from Star Wars though. They enjoy creating their own masterpieces, but they have their favorite sets too.
It amazes me how it all starts with one little, bitty brick. Building brick by brick it can grow into something quite large! That single building block seems so insignificant. Some sets though, can become quite large from hours of building them.
One of the bigger sets was just built at my house. It took an awful lot of time, and I didn’t quite realize how many hundreds of those blocks were locked together until it was dropped and the explosion occurred. Of course I mean from the toy…not the person…absolutely.
Have you ever had a pesky annoyance that you didn’t think too much about? It was small. No big deal. You chose to let it go, keeping strife out of your house. That’s awesome! Then, another small, but irksome thing happened which interlocked with the first one that you let go…well, maybe just pushed aside. Where was it hiding? Those little disturbances kept building up over time until they were too heavy to keep hold of. Finally, the explosion took place. Sound familiar?
Instead of pushing the annoying instances to a place that will come out later after you receive a build-up, try letting it out right away. That doesn’t mean I’m saying you have free reign to gripe and complain, tell someone off, or even stomp your foot. Nope, I’m telling you to let it out another way. Whatever works for you that God would find acceptable; laughter is always good! Can you find the humor in the situation?
Listen, ask my son, just because something is shoved under the bed and you can’t see, doesn’t mean it was taken care of. It’s just waiting for more to join it until the “monster” is too big to hide. It will eventually come spilling out from under the dust ruffle.
I’ll give you an example. What about if you have a crazy driver behind you and they’re practically kissing your bumper? If you are going to put on a puckered up face and say, “I’m not going to get upset at that person because it just wouldn’t be Godly,” but you stuff it down and not really get over it, it probably isn’t the best way to handle it. Just be careful the explosion doesn’t take place as an overreaction to one more of those small annoyances. Innocent bystanders could get hurt!
Wouldn’t it be better to truly turn it over to God and let Him take care of it? He’ll help you let it go. This actually happened to me. Yep, I was the one in the car with a crazy person behind me. They finally passed me(I was going the speed limit by the way) and even waved to me, but not necessarily in a friendly manner. Anyhow, God sure made the laughter come out so there was nothing there to build on later. Up over the hill I went and do you know what a saw? The vehicle that had passed me. Why? They got behind a tractor they couldn’t pass! Don’t tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humor! I laughed the whole way home even though it took me quite a bit of extra time behind the person just doing his job in that tractor. That irritation was gone…nothing to build on!
Today, be clothed with strength and dignity. Being strong isn’t holding everything in and pushing every irritating thought down. Being strong is dealing with those things in a healthy way so that there aren’t any explosions later on.
