A wonderful woman named Erna Rubin told about her favorite childhood pleasures. "One of my favorite activities was the church picnic the first Sunday in June. The men played horseshoes and the women sat around and talked. There were booths with different things, but my favorite stand was the one with ice cream. Ice cream would cost 5 cents for one scoop, and I got to buy a cone with one scoop. It was too expensive to buy it often. I liked the pointed sugar cones so I could bite off the end and suck the ice cream out of the bottom” (p. 8).
Erna knew how to enjoy the good things of life, the simple, commonplace things like a 5-cent cone. If you stop and think about it, these little common things are really the things that we treasure as we get older and hopefully wiser. "You will eat the fruit of your labor” (Psalm 128:2).
Have a safe and relaxing Labor Day weekend, enjoy the simple things, and have an ice cream cone.
I'll be back on Tuesday.
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