August 4, 2024
Marie and I took two of our grand kids to Thunder Alley last Saturday. For those who don’t know, Thunder Alley used to be a bowling alley. Now, it is a family entertainment center where you can bowl, play arcade and video games, and to top it off, eat a terrific cheeseburger! Before I get into what I really want to write about, if you haven’t taken kids to a place where they can let their hair down and run wild, just a word of advice. Wear tennis shoes and double down your Geritol for a few days before you go! My grand kids and about seven thousand, six hundred fifty-two other kids ran from this game to that game having the time of their lives. I heard about how many baskets my grandson made when he played the basketball game. The Boston Celtic scouts who were on hand took pages of notes on his keen eye-hand coordination. I’m sure a contract offer will be coming any day now. My granddaughter was excited about the three baskets she made on the grown-up basketball game. I’m telling you, those two kids, as well as the other kids I watched play, sure know how to have a good time. As I watched them play, I started pondering. When did we adults stop having fun? Maybe it was when we graduated high school and started college a long way from home and found ourselves surrounded by strangers and a pile of schoolbooks and we realized we weren’t in Kansas anymore. Maybe you didn’t go to college, but you decided to enter the work force and realized you had forty more years of work to go before retirement and then you got close to retirement age and discovered you couldn’t retire for whatever reason. Perhaps you got married and found yourself a parent at a young age and you haven’t slowed down since. Whatever your situation, I’ll bet it has been a while since you had fun like those kids I saw yesterday. I know we are adults and I know adults are busy “adulting,” but we need to take some time to relax and have fun. Christ followers, this is especially true for us. John tells us that Jesus came to give us life and give it to us abundantly, or freely. So, sometime this week, I encourage you to be a kid for a while. Wear a helmet and knee pads but be a kid and enjoy life. You will be better for it, and if enough of us adults would do it, this world just might become a better place.
Be blessed and go be a blessing . . . Bro. Andy
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