Hello boys and girls
This is Aunt Frenita and I have a wonderful story for you
Called "In the Beginning"
Today's memory verse is from Genesis 1:31
It says "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good"
The message for today's story is "God made a wonderful world because He loves me"
Have you ever made a good picture of an animal and felt pleased about it?
God made real life animals and a whole new world
And it was very good
One day, God decided to make a whole new world
He had a wonderful plan
God looked at a place of darkness and water
It was too dark to see anything
And there were no sounds except the sound of water
Then God spoke
"Let there be light," He said
And there was light
God divided the light and the darkness
The light He called "day"
And the darkness He called "night"
And that was the end of the first day of our world
And God said, "That's good"
On the second day, God created air and the beautiful blue sky to surround the new world
And the evening
and the morning
Made the earth's second day
The next day, God said, "Let the water under the sky come together"
"And let dry ground appear"
Suddenly the waters came together in certain places
And dry land appeared
God called the dry places "land"
And the waters He called the "seas"
But there was still more work to do on this day
God spoke again and the earth became beautifully green with grass and trees
Red and purple and yellow and orange flowers nodded in the gentle breeze
Plants and trees grew tasty things to eat
Before night crept over the land on the third day
God looked at all these beautiful and delicious things
He liked what He saw
And what do you think He said?
It's good
The next day God said, "let there be lights in the sky"
And it was so
The new brilliant sun shone on the earth by day
And that night, the moon threw moonbeams across the peaceful seas
Millions and millions
of tiny little stars
twinkled in the night sky
And what do you think God said?
God said, "that's good"
Although the earth was beautiful, it was still a very very quiet place
But that was about to change
On the fifth day, God spoke again
"Let the waters be filled with living creatures," He said
And let birds fly above the earth
Dolphins and whales splashed in the sea
Brightly colored little tiny fish danced in the streams
Birds in every color chirped and squawked and screeched
and cooed
God blessed them all and said, "that's good"
When a new day dawned
God spoke again
This time He called for living creatures on the land
Great big animals
Like elephants and the hippopotamus lumbered across the earth
Lions and tigers swished their long tails
Kangaroos and rabbits hopped along
Puppies played and horses neighed
God looked at the beautiful world He had created
and He smiled
What a lively and lovely world!
And do you know what He said?
He said, "this is good"
And so it was