The Bible says, Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Christian Homemaker, for the next five minutes, let Bennet Peters-Jones share with you some spiritual helps for building rather than battering your home. Here now is Sunshine on the Soaked Suds. Travel by airplane provides me with a rare opportunity for casual reading. While on a trip with my husband last week, I picked up the airline magazine and scanned an article about yo-yos. By the end of the piece, I had to shake my head in wonder. That article had outlined a man's life given to building a better yo-yo. Building a better yo-yo. The article pointed out that the interest this man had in yo-yos began, obviously, in childhood. But when he grew up, he didn't lose his interest in yo-yos. That interest continued well into his adulthood. In fact, it spurred him to a single-minded search. He wanted to build a better yo-yo. First of all, he searched far and wide for the best materials out of which to make a yo-yo. And after several different materials had been tried, he finally settled on the good old faithful wood. But then he explored the physics of yo-yos. Did you know that yo-yos had physics? Well, he had to look into that so that he could find the ideal diameter for a yo-yo axle. He came up with the answer that it had to be 250 one-thousandths of an inch in diameter with a groove in the center. Beyond that, he also looked for an ideal shape for the yo-yo. You see, he wanted a toy that would perform several different kinds of tricks. After much hard searching, he again came up with an answer. A take apart, put back together again type for the different conformations. And still he went looking, this time for the best axle material. Here, he wanted to find something that would work for the sake of reduced friction as the yo-yo spins. He found in his research that brass was too heavy. Aluminum and steel didn't work as well as wood. And still frustrated, this searcher applied to NASA for help. And sure enough, those astute scientists worked with this man to find new space-age materials, sending him about 100 prototypes. At the end of his search, he went back to wood. All of this in pursuit of a yo-yo. What unbelievable intensity and longevity of focus. What surprising tenacity and what a long-ranging search. For what? A yo-yo. A toy. But lest we too quickly dismiss this man as a misguided child, we should recognize that we too might be lured into yo-yo pursuit. Think about it. Look around you. Don't you know some folks who might qualify as Christian yo-yo researchers? These are the folks who have an intense single-sided concentration on such things as their own personal interests within the Christian community, or their pet doctrines, their closely held ideas and ideals, their stubbornly guarded practices, or their constantly justified details of clothing and or appearance. Those things, any and all of them, are not the wheels which move us forward in accomplishment for Jesus Christ. Those things are nothing but You've heard Sunshine on the Soap Suds with Bennett Peters Jones, Christian homemaker and author of Beauty and the Best. Write to Mrs. Jones at Sunshine, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, 29614.