Inspirational Sunday

Praise God From Whom All Of Our Blessings Flow!

It is Inspirational Sunday. A time when a group of bloggers share some soul food with readers.

Wisdom can be found in many different places. Often we associate being wise with heady theories and philosophies. I have learned that wisdom is often simply stated. You just have to absorb what is in front of you.

• Today I want to share one of my favorite pieces of wisdom. It is from a book titled: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum.
  
• ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
  (a guide for Global Leadership)
  All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.These are the things I learned:
  
• 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 are not yours.
• Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and milk are good for you.
• Life and balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• 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.
• Gold fish, hampsters and white mice and even the seed in the Styrofoam cup~they all die. So do we.
• And remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all-LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.

Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

I hope you have a blessed week. Take time to enjoy the life that you are living! Bless someone with a prayer or the gift of your smile.

Check out the other Inspiriational Sunday bloggers. Get yourself nourished spiritually.

Sojourner's Place is the creator of the meme. Check out her post and the other Sunday Inspiration Participants.