If you follow this WhatNow2Do blog, you will know there are very few things we enjoy more than a mischievous truth that you did not see coming. And we have shared this one with you before. Ed Ricketts, the marine biologist and close friend of John Steinbeck whose philosophy of life is recounted in The Log from the Sea of Cortez, once found himself quite poor and with three children to take care of. He told them it was important to remember three things, in order of importance:

1. Number one and first in importance, we must have as much fun as we can with what we have.
2. Number two, and second in importance, we must eat as well as we can, because if we don’t we won’t have the health and strength to have as much fun as we might.
3. And number three and third and last in importance, we must keep the house reasonably in order, wash the dishes, and such things. But we will not let the last interfere with the other two.
   

In these times of apostasy and uncertainty, and in the spirit of Ed Ricketts, we offer to our fellow travelers the three things of greatest importance to the Believer, in order of importance:

1. Number one, and first in importance, we must glorify and enjoy God as much as possible with the life He has given us. That is, after all, what we were created for.
2. Number two, and second in importance, we must love our neighbors as ourselves, because it would be a peculiar thing indeed to profess our love for God while neglecting those He has commanded us to love.
3. And number three, and third and last in importance, we must earn our bread, pay our bills, keep the house reasonably in order, wash the dishes, and such things. These are all good and necessary things, and we ought to do them as unto the Lord. But we must not allow the third to interfere with the first two.