![]() Phil, a traveling salesman, shared his feeling as he stood in the St. Being able to share with your mate gives more meaning to the experiences. Marriage grows and flourishes as a couple shares all parts of their lives, good times and bad, hopes and dreams, successes, challenges, disappointments, and hurts. Step by step let’s take what Robert Fulghum has written and see how it applies to marriage. So, let’s look at it in the context of a basic marriage statement. As we read the above, it seemed most of it also applies to having a great marriage. Most of the articles we have written have been about building marriages. Now, ask yourself, how I am doing with what kindergarten taught me? Do I remember to do these simple actions as I busily go about my life or have I forgotten many of them? You learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK.ĭid you chuckle a little bit as you read it? Take a minute and reread it then pause letting it sink into your mind and heart. So do we.Īnd then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed Goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paintĪnd sing and dance and play and work every day some. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. As you read what he wrote, see if you can journey back to a simpler time of your life. “ Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at kindergarten.” There is some basic wisdom in what he wrote that bears looking at and thinking about. Many years ago a man by the name of Robert Fulghum wrote a book entitled, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. ![]() There is Facebook, Twitter, emails, Pinterest, blogging, all of which are fun, but can consume lives. There are many great advancements that can occupy too much of your time if you let it. Use technology to assist your life but do not get lost in it. ![]() Maybe it is time to rethink what is going on in your own life. Direct talking is being replaced with the quick text. This is even starting to creep into marriage and family relationships. Our son, an elementary school principal, attended a conference where the speaker stated many job applicants struggle in a job interview and would do much better if the interviewer would sit across the table and text. Our Bishop stated he came out of his office at church to find two deacons sitting next to each other on a bench texting each other instead of talking. Oh, yes, then there is “texting.” Many people are losing the ability to talk to each on a personal level. There are so many advancements that it boggles the mind. It looks like it won’t be long until the car will do all the driving for you. Cars will now talk to you, look out for approaching danger, park for you without you touching the steering wheel. Looking at the App Store on our phone these programs will cover almost every aspect of our lives – books, business, education, entertainment, finance, food and drink, games, health and fitness, medical, and the list goes on and on. The quest seems to be for bigger and faster and yet smaller, thinner, and more powerful computers along with cell phones that can do everything a big computer can do and it fits in your pocket. We keep looking for more sophisticated ways to solve every problem. With the advancement of technology, the pace of life seems to go faster and faster.
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