WINKY DINK

In the 1950's, there was a televison program that came on that I loved to watch. Ofcourse back then we didn't have much of a choice, but this was a cute children's show hosted by Jack Barry. It was called "Winky Dink" and I can still sing the theme song to this day!
Jack would introduce Winky and some of his mischevious anectodotes, and then introduce children from a live living room scene. He would tell them to open up their Winky Dink kits and take out their magic coloring screen and wipe it off before placing it on the television screen. Then he would teach the children to share the colored crayons and get ready to color Winky's photo album.
Turning the pages in the album, they might find cousin Slim, who needed a moustache, so Jack would tell the child with the black crayon to go up to the magic screen and draw a moustache on cousin slim. The next page in the album might be aunt Martha, and she would need a string of pearls, so the child with the yellow crayon would go up and drew a string of pearls on aunt Martha!
Mind you, while all of this was going on in the tv studio, Becky was at home drawing too, only she didn't have a magic screen! Needless to say, when my Mama found crayon marks on our brand new TV, I wasn't a very popular child that day! It was important to listen to ALL the directions and to follow them.
Scripture tells us that a person is bless to hear the word, but he is more blessed if he will not only hear but do what the word says. No, we don't have any of these sweet little uplifting programs for children any more, and that's sad, but we always have the word of God that will always be here to uplift us, and it will never, ever leave us.......and that's good!
Becky