Repurposed Cars

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y twelve-year-old grandson has hundreds (if not thousands) of Hot Wheel cars.  Periodically, his mother makes him get rid of a few to make room for newer ones.  At least, that’s what she tells him the reason is.  So, Bennett collected almost a hundred cars and puzzled where to donate them.  His second cousin, my nephew Adam, is a teacher at an inner-city school, so the cars will go to second-grade boys.  Adam will use the cars to motivate his second-grade boys to do their classwork thisfall  and earn a Hot Wheel car.  A good lesson for Bennett and a great motivation for the second-grade boys.  That’s what you call a “win-win” situation.  Solomon knew the value of a gift.  He said in Proverbs 17:8, “A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.”  Bennett’s donated cars may encourage a little boy to learn to read.