As the school year begins, elementary teaching returns to monthly virtues! September’s virtue of the month: WISDOM = finding out what you should do and doing it. Below is a message from Melanie Williams, editor in chief of 252 Basics, our elementary curriculum, on Wisdom.

Treasure Hunt
What’s more precious than jewels but available to all who seek it? Screams to get your attention but eludes you if you ignore it? Has a definite starting point but knows no end? Here’s a hint:

YES! It’s wisdom, which is finding out what you should do and doing it. God says if you accept His words and store up His commands inside you, tune your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, call out for insight and search for it as you would for hidden treasure, then you will find out how to know Him. He is the one who gives wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, the one who stores up success for His followers, the one who shields them from harm, guards their paths, and leads them in the right direction. (See Proverbs 2:1-11. In fact, see all of Proverbs for a whole trove of the treasures of wisdom.) Put that way, who in his right mind wouldn’t dig wisdom? Dig for wisdom? Dig and dig for wisdom?

In September, we’ll be on the hunt for gems of wisdom, helping kids understand that

• God wants to give you wisdom.
• Wisdom is worth searching for.
• If you want to be wise, hang out with wise people.
• Wisdom is knowing AND doing.

So get your shovel out and let’s go dig for wisdom. It’s worth it.

Peace,
Melanie

Melanie Williams
Editor in chief
252 Basics
The rethink Group
By Melanie Williams. © 2009 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission.

WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT SEPTEMBER’S VIRTUE?
Go to http://www.252basics.org. On the video player, select Virtue Video #1 to hear Reggie Joyner speak on Wisdom. (Note: the videos change as each month passes and a new virtue is introduced.)