Count what counts

Today is the day. Each year, for the past eighteen, every fourth grader in our county comes to a festival where they are taught about the benefits of not polluting our waters and the process of water treatment. It is a fun day.

What has been really neat about the eighteen years of training is that we now have the high school students, who have gone through this festival, teach today's fourth graders. The fourth graders love it because they are hearing from some cool, teenage, high schoolers, and not just some old fogies. It is important that we teach our children - the right things.

Today's word is something that I thought about as we have prepared for the water festival and while helping my children with math, spelling, and language this week. "Teaching your child to count is good. Teaching your child what counts is more important."

It is good that our two children can count; it is imperative. Life will be almost impossible without the ability to do simple arithmetic computations. Without the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, the world becomes much more complicated; and, you can be taken advantage of. So, it is important that we do all we can to teach our children how to count.

However, it is much more important that we teach our children what counts. Like it's not important how much money you make; what's important is what you do with it. Or, it's not important what others think of you; it's more important what GOD knows about you. Yes, friends count but eternity is more important. Especially as we enter the Christmas season, I want my children to know that it isn't the number of gifts they get. We are celebrating the birth of our SAVIOR and the gift of eternal life. Learn to count what counts.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T