UNO

I visited my grandsons earlier this week. I needed a “Grandma fix” and since the middle grandson was celebrating birthday #16, I thought it was a good time to visit.  They live a four-hour drive away from where I live so I hadn’t seen them since Christmas.  The birthday grandson is now a handsome 6‘3“ young man!  I’ve been looking up to him for quite some time. Now I look higher.

All the Smith Grandsons are fans of the UNO game, but not the UNO game I used to play.  They like UNO Attack, UNO Flash, UNO Flip, etc. Amazon.com has at least a dozen variations of UNO!  To say the least I do not like these variations!  But when grandsons challenge Grandma, she accepts.  I do not like UNO “whatever” but I do love my grandsons.  We played the Flash and Flip versions which weren’t quite as bad as the Attack.  I prefer playing “Sorry” which I almost won, second to grandson #3.

As I reflected on the UNO games I thought, how ironic that UNO, which means 1 in Spanish, has a dozen or more variations. It’s a contradiction of its name!  Then I remembered the commands that were given to the Israelites as they prepared to enter the land God had promised to them. Many times God reminded his people. “I am the Lord your God.” Moses repeated “the Lord your God” many times as he gave God’s law to the people.  Deuteronomy 6:4 tells us “the Lord is one.”  He is the holy ONE and the only ONE we are to worship and obey.   May we never try to make our own variations of the ONE TRUE GOD!

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).