Now children,
\nlet the curtain rise on vacation bible school.
\nClose your eyes and clap your hands,
\nand see in the beginning how empty earth was.
\nDark as a raven\u2019s wing.
\nSoundless as a sleeping bell.
\nWhere is the sun?
\nMommy and Daddy?
\nThe garden they call Eden?
\nThe first boy Adam?
\nThe first girl Eve,
\nbefore God made days to live in?
\nNow open your eyes
\nand see the light where God
\nput summers and winters,
\npillows for our sleep,
\nand stories in our head called dreams.
\nNow hear the violins he put in trees,
\nthe drums inside storms,
\nthe songs of humming waves
\nyou sing as hymns.<\/p>\n
All the adventures for your lives.
\nThings for games,
\nteachers to teach you how to read and write,
\nand a place to go as one life leads to another,
\nin God\u2019s house called Heaven.
\nWhere houses have no doors to lock
\nand summer lasts forever,
\nexcept for special times in winter
\nwhen the earth is white,
\nand autumn is gold with leaves,
\nand spring lets us fly our kites
\nand no one is tired and sad,
\nand where we gather around God\u2019s son
\ncalled Jesus, before we sleep,
\nand he tells us what it\u2019s like
\nto be God\u2019s shepherd,
\nlooking after each of us.
\nHow God feels when he sees us play,
\neach of us dearly cherished, loved,
\nand held safely in his heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now children, let the curtain rise on vacation bible school. Close your eyes and clap your hands, and see in the beginning how empty earth…<\/p>\n