Noni was on Granny’s computer visiting the PBS site for children called The
Democracy Project http://pbskids.org/democracy/ when he told her, “Granny, I want to build a
voting booth.”
She thought for a minute.
“OK, go upstairs and find the piece of cardboard under
the train table.” He did and Granny showed him, and his sister Laurel, how a
voting booth had to be private so that someone could vote without others
knowing for whom they voted. The cardboard screen provided the privacy and a
little chair held a box with a slot in the top, a magic marker, and a stack of “ballots.”
Two campaign posters from the web site
were hung on the wall above, and the voting booth was in business.
Voters could vote for:
Noah
or
Laurel
Granny told them they had to make a speech about what they stood for.
Noah proclaimed that, “All bookstores should have more Bibles, story
books, and kids’ books.” That was his
platform.
Laurel said something about “Horses,” so her platform
became, “People should have more horses.”
That worked.
It was time to vote.
Granny voted first. Twice. Once for each of them.
Noah voted for himself and then decided his car collection
should vote, too. [There were lots of ballots.]
Laurel voted for herself, and her stuffed animals were
allowed to vote also.
And the winner was…Noah with 10 votes, with Laurel
pronounced vice president with 9 votes (since fewer animals than cars voted, it
seems).
There were fleeting emotions of Victory and Defeat,
Believe it.
Children are a heritage from the Lord
Psalm 127:3
