When I was a PE teacher, there was a game I had the kids play called “Builders and Bulldozers.” I’d have a bunch of cones of various sizes around the gym and I’d divide the class in half; half of the kids were builders and the other half were bulldozers.
The bulldozers would knock over the cones with the assigned body part I gave them, like their elbows. The builders goal was run around and stand all the cones back up.
It’s a fun game to play with kids. Yet sadly it seems we’re still playing this game in life as adults, not with cones, but with our words and actions.
I share this with you today because we have a choice as we enter this day if we will be a builder or a bulldozer.
I invite you to join me to...
pause. breathe. pray.
May we choose to be a builder today, within our homes, in our communities, states and our nation. May we choose to say and do what will benefit one another. Yes, there will always be bulldozers but may we pray there will always be more builders than bulldozers, and some of those bulldozers have a change of heart and too become builders.
With love and hope,
Shawn
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. - Ephesians 4:29