What is it about knocking down a stack of blocks that little children find almost irresistible? If it were simply the crash itself, would they be so indignant when a playmate prematurely kicks the foundation out from under it? Adults don't have to be around children and blocks for very long before they establish some version of this basic rule: The one who builds something is the one who has the right to knock it down or to say when it will be toppled. Like it or not, most children will acknowledge that such a rule is just. Even children understand the right of a creator to rule over his creation.

Growing up in Lewiston, Idaho, Dad and Mom taught me about God and I watched how God influenced their lives every day. Dad closed his grocery store on Sundays because, as he put it, that was the Lord's Day.