Over twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum wrote a number one bestseller, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” The book has sold seven million copies. In summary:
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Pretty wise words. There were more important truths that I learned and we taught our children before kindergarten—that when they bowed their hands before a meal to say, “God is great; God is good; Let us thank Him for our food; By His hands, we shall be fed; Give us Lord, our daily bread.”
There is profound theology there. We explored God’s greatness last week—and only scratched the surface, if that—and this week, we will examine His goodness.
“Oh, how great is Your goodness, Which You have laid up for those who fear You, Which You have prepared for those who trust in You In the presence of the sons of men! You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence From the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion From the strife of tongues.” (Psalms 31:19-20 NKJV)
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