“My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active; only by this can we be certain that we are children of the truth” (I John 3:18-19).
A mother wrote the following letter to the “family advice” column of a daily newspaper: When my 3-year-old daughter discovered a hope chest containing some long discarded reminders of my childhood, she came up with a tattered rag doll. She brought it to me, and I fondled it as I recalled the years of love hugged into its sadly ragged body. But I was dismayed when she stood at my knee and asked, “What can it do?”
On television, on store counters and shelves, and in store windows she has seen dolls that can walk and talk and wet their pants. And the awful truth dawned on me that a doll meant only to be loved holds no satisfaction for today’s little ones. It is sad, truly.
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