unDemanded sacrifice

Categories: journal

Date: 03 March 2010 15:49:24

Maggi Dawn, interestingly, in "Giving it up", suggests that Abraham may have been mistaken when he thought that God wanted him to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Not sure what I think, but this photo reminds me of a time when I could well have mistakenly believed that God wanted me to give something up:

I took almost my entire collection of carefully constructed model aeroplanes to be sold at a jumble sale.

Then, a few years ago, at a toy sale, I saw a somewhat weatherbeaten Dinky Vickers Viscount (this type of aeroplane) in the old British European Airways colours. I had one, as a child (it was a diecast metal toy, which I played with before I started building the more fragile plastic models), and I almost bought the one I saw, as a kind of souvenir. But the seed had been sown, and I later bought this one, new, made by Corgi, from a model shop. Since then, I have bought a few models, as space and finances have allowed.

It isn't quite the same, but it does give me pleasure ...