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Category:
Children
Publisher: Cape Arago Press
Type: Fiction
Pages: 123
Copyright: Sept 2, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781301921645
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Prepare for Christmas with 40 5-minute read-aloud stories set around the time of the Christ child's birth.
Meet the Emperor Augustus's rather nervous advisors, the wise men's research student, the shepherd boy whose grandfather keeps complaining of the noise (then angels sing), and a little girl asking "Are we nearly there yet?" on the road to Egypt.
Excerpt
In the beginning, God created the universe. He made stars and planets. He made the sun, moon and earth. He made mountains and seas, flowers and trees, birds and bees, and animals and people. And everything was good.
God made the world like a painter creating a beautiful picture. He mixed its colors together, designed its patterns, and added light and dark in all the right places. When God finished painting, the earth was good enough to hang on the wall of heaven.
God made the world like an author writing a book. He worked out the details, solved all the mysteries, and linked all the pieces together. When God finished writing, he gave us his words in the Bible so we could read them. Meanwhile angels rejoiced to know what he’d done.
God made the world like a programmer designing a computer game. He set up all the scenes, made voices for the characters, and planned how all the rules would make everything work. But computer games often have bugs in them. Our world was so good when God finished making it, there wasn’t a single mistake in it anywhere.
But God didn’t hang the world on a wall when he’d finished. He didn’t leave the Bible on a bookshelf to look nice. And he didn’t sell his program to people who wanted to play humans on their computer. Instead, God made the world like a gardener who works in a park. When he’d finished planning and planting everything, God stepped right into the park to help the people look after it. God’s park was a beautiful place called the Garden of Eden.
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