What I Learned in Kindergarten

 

I came across a book published by Robert Fulghum from 1990 entitled, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.”  It had great advice … for kindergarten students as well as for adults.  Here is the list:

Share everything

Play fair

Don't hit people

Put things back where you found them

Clean up your own mess

Don't take things that aren't yours

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody

Wash your hands before you eat

Flush

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Psalm 127:3, “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD …”

Road Debris

 

Two weeks ago, I was coming home from picking up a prescription for my wife.  I descended the on-ramp to the interstate and began to merge.  Traffic was heavy as usual, so I looked from the car merging ahead of me, to the traffic beside me, to cars in my rear-view mirror.  Suddenly, I ran over an unseen object.  Some piece of metal hit my front bumper, banged under my car, and clattered out the passenger.  I instantly recalled the story of a family in Wisconsin whose gas tank was ruptured when they drove over some debris on the highway.  But I survived.  My little car survived too, but had damage in two places.  I was reminded that I am in the dear Lord’s care every day.  Some days I just realize it more than others.  David realized the Lord’s care.  Psalm 139:1-3, “O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”  Thank you, Lord, for watching over me each day.  Hey, are you grateful for the Lord’s watchcare?  Then take a moment to thank Him.

Fifth Row Pew at Church

 

We are creatures of habit.  At church, my wife and I sit in the fifth row on the left – all the time.  And as you can see from the picture, my wife’s wheelchair scratches the end of the pew.  I try to be careful, but I must get her close enough so that she can grab onto the pew to steady herself as she transfers from the wheelchair to the pew.  But no one at church complains about the scratches.  And for that, I am grateful.  Everyone is glad to see my wife at church.  Solomon said in Proverbs 14:4, “Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.”  Everyone at Calvary would rather have my wife at church than to have a like-new-fifth-row-pew.