What's in a happy meal?

I am an unashamed, over the top fan of happy meals. I don't really know what it is, but once they tuck that little cheeseburger into a cardboard box with handles and insert a cute little toy...I am suckered in! To me the fries are crispier, the burger cheesier, and the coke sweeter if it comes in a happy meal. The cool thing about it? My husband loves them too. No, he doesn't eat them but for him the price is right. In Jamaica it is about $375 for a Burger King kids meal. Yeh, I know that technically McDonalds is the true owner of the "happy meal" but since Jamaica boasts no McDonalds eateries, I close my eyes at Burger King and pretend I am eating a bonafide happy meal. Oh, and $375 here translates to about $4 US dollars. (I can hear some of you hyperventilating after reading the above price).
One of the funniest stories I recall of my mom's last days on Earth was when she realized for the first time that adults could order happy meals. She had always believed that you had to be a kid to order one or the Happy Meal Police might getcha. The day my sister bought her one for the first time you would've thought she had purchased her a diamond ring. (Well, not really. Betty Louise did love her some jewelry) There were many more happy meals to come for her before the Lord took her home. I also think of how much fun it is to take my grandkids for happy meals. Their mommies aren't too fond of it...but I kinda think when we go home to visit they just might let Nena take them out for a special date to McDonalds for a happy meal and playplace. That's the stuff Nena's and Poppa's are good for and can actually afford!
Recently I have learned of a good use for all those happy meal toys that we accumulate in the bottom of the toybox or in the floorboard of our car. Did you know that a little happy meal toy is actually a special treat to our Jamaican schoolkids? When we have the occasion to go in to our Public Schools here and minister, it is always a good idea to take along a good stash of happy meal toys....still in the plastic wrapper. Where at home your child may not think much of it, and in fact not even unwrap it, here it is looked at as an awesome gift. We teach a Bible lesson and then have a question and answer time afterwards. The prize for a right answer is....you guessed it...a happy meal toy. This is especially true for our rural area schools where they rarely make it down to the city to frequent a Burger King.
So....the next time you order a happy meal. Think about Jamaica and how you could make some little boy or girls day with that simple little plastic toy that came wrapped in your box. And...when you think about us down here...pray for us. We have a lot of teams coming down to minister with us this year. Some will be giving Bible stories to these little boys and girls in our schools. Pray for us in Jamaica that we will see a great harvest of souls of these little Happy Meal loving kids.
This is just another rambling of one tired Jamerican....SELAH!