IT’S VBS TIME! [Sun, 6-9-24]

BEYOND WINTER: Irrelevant Musings of an Old Man--IT’S VBS TIME! [Sun, 6-9-24]

 

It was Jonah and the ark

Noah and the whale

Jesus in a basket

Memory verses without fail

 

Wise men with ashes on their feet

Because they came from afar

Their origin was no mystery

It was known as Orientar

 

The waters parting for Goliath

While we ran all 'round the place

Rub a dub, dub, thanks for the grub

That’s how you say your grace

 

The Lord’s some kind of shepherd

Who keeps the sheep from strife

And surely good Miss Murphy

Will follow me all the days of my life

 

We saw them on the flannel board

And on the teacher’s worried face

Stories from the Bible’s page

And Kool-Aids last disgrace

 

It was memorize your verses

And you were sure to get a star

But nothing of the God of now

Just the One beyond afar

 

But you really must be patient

And apply the Golden Rule

To those bedraggled ladies of the church

Who teach Vacation Bible School

 

John Robert McFarland

 

STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I probably should not use the title Christ In Winter anymore, since its assumption is that the writer cares about the readers. In fact, the real title now is Beyond Winter, which means the writer is an old man and beyond caring. But I don’t know how to change the CIW title up above, and if anyone looks for this column online, they’ll probably search for CIW, so…