The Next 15 Minutes: The Wall
My mom did a great job teaching my kids about the walls of Jericho during the quarantine. I mean she did a really good job. My son, Daniel is obsessed with building walls and of course tearing them down. He loves to build walls with his legos and march around them 7 times and force them to crash down.
I too as a boy (and well into my 20s) loved demolishing lego fortresses. Ben and I as teenagers and maybe once or twice in our 20s would build lego forts and place lego men along with a treasure chest deep inside its walls. We then would go to the other end of the hall and use rubber bands to fire off tightly wound paper darts at our creation until the treasure chest laid open.
At some point, during this quarantine, I adapted this game for my kids. Instead of lego men, we had "potato heads" with certain treasures hidden inside their little compartments. Instead of paper wads, we had child-size basketballs or bowling balls that we would roll at the walls until they all were destroyed. This game is what my son affectionately calls "tatoe head bowlin".
Fast forward to this past Saturday. As busy as Friday night can be for a high school head football coach, Saturdays are worse! All the things that you've put off all week need to get done plus preparation for the next week's opponent must begin. Did I mention that I preach on Sunday also? There is just no time for "tatoe head bowlin" but wouldn't you know it, there he was asking me to participate. It's almost like he had no clue. I mean come on son. The words "maybe later" were almost out of my mouth until my "heart" stopped them with the thought of "when was the last time you made him feel like a priority?" It was at that moment I pictured my son in his 20s busy with life and maybe he'd take a few minutes with his old man to watch a ball game or maybe a little "tatoe head bowlin". I built my boy the sturdiest wall that could be made out of legos and rejoiced in the walls coming down. He demolished more than one wall and the other one was made out of "business". Thanks, son! Take a 15-minute block out of your "wall of business" and spend some time expressing your love for the loves in your life.
Travis Creasy