SIMPLE REMINDERS FROM A FIRST GRADER



See the kid above? His name is Christian. He's a 6yr. old first grader...AND he's a songwriter! A six year old songwriter? Really?? The answer is yeah, really!!

One day as the kids stampeded into the afterschool program building, there was an interesting exchange between Christian and another child from the program. Christian came walking in, cap backwards, carrying a little guitar and being followed by this girl also in the first grade. The girl (a groupie in the making) says, "Christian, you sounded soooo good! You should play the guitar again!" Christian, unfortunately denied his fan's request and went on his day: eating snack, finishing his homework, AND THEN taking out this folded piece of paper that he had tucked away in his guitar case. He unfolded the piece of paper and started to write. When he finished, he folded the paper back up and wrote "To You" on it and handed it to me. I said, "Thanks Christian! Can you tell me what it is?" He says, "It's a song I wrote for you. Open it!"
So this is Christian's song:

God is the one for you.
God loves you , but God is not fat and not a punk.
God is the best and the best in you.
God is in you and in your family.


Thank God for moving in the lives of our kids and reminding us of who He is and what He's not!!

I will have to also add that after I read the song, we looked at it together and fixed some spelling mistakes and rewrote it onto a nicer piece of paper. When we were all done, Christian asked, "Do you like it?" And of course I did! So he then says, "Write 'The song is great!' on the paper." I hesitated just for a second and in that second he says, "No, seriously, write it." I was cracking up, on the inside of course! He also told me to add, "It is the best!"

So Christian, your song is GREAT and it is the BEST!!!