Growing up we all had our favorite toys. I enjoyed my Lionel train that would pour smoke out of the engine if I put a white pellet in its smokestack. It was just a simple set up, a few train cars, one set of tracks that only went in an oblong circle, and a few play buildings that went beside the tracks.
My uncle filled one large room in his basement with toy trains. There were multiple trains, running on multiple tracks, going this way and that way. It was quite the display, but I still enjoyed my one little train going around that one oblong track.
In Kenya the children where we lived were poor and did not have electric toy trains. They made toys to play with out of scrap pieces of wire they found laying around. They would smile and laugh and play with their creations in the streets and alleys. It amazed me what they could create with just some old wire. There were miniature bicycles, scooters, and even miniature cars.
It is not about how much we possess that makes us happy. It is all about what possesses our hearts.
“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NIV
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