I asked Caden if he would like to help me gather up toys in the yard that they didn’t play with anymore and give them away. He asked if we were going to have a yard sale. I told him no. He then said, “Are we going to take them back to Walmart?” I said, “No. We are going to take them to the apartments in town and give them to a family who doesn’t have as many toys as us. He looked puzzled and then said, “How are we going to get any money?”
Teachable moment…In order to have teachable moments, you have to have moments.
I took the opportunity to tell him that money on earth fades away. We spend it on stuff, then that stuff eventually breaks, and finally it all fades away. But when we give to others, we store up money in heaven that never goes away.
He then asked, “What is heaven like?” I said, “It is a party. Better than anything you have ever imagined. God is there and walks with man just like in the garden of eden. There is singing, it’s energetic, it is far better than anything on this earth.”
His five year old mind processed for a while and then he said, “Is Disney World there?” I guess that was the best he could muster up. I said, “Disney world would be like your backyard.”
We then went and delivered the toys to the home of the child I mentor from Barnwell primary school. You should have seen the little children playing with the toys that my children had simply written off. Caden was passing out the toys and playing with the children there at the low rent apartment complex. As we drove, he said, “They didn’t give us any money for heaven.”
Yes they did, Caden. Yes they did.