Everything God Made is Good

I was driving three of my grandchildren home yesterday afternoon.  Driving them home is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re going to get. We sang Old MacDonald, we pretended to be various characters in Peter Pan, we pointed out the color of cars near us.  At one point Raya, the four-year-old, began to talk about dragons.  Then she said, “We need a song about dragons.”  Without skipping a beat Abby, the almost-three-year-old, began to sing:

Who made dragons?  God did.

Who made dragons?  God did.

Who made dragons?  God did.

Any everything God made is good.

I had two thoughts.  First, if there are or ever have been dragons on the earth, God certainly made them.

The second is how glad I am we sing that little song often.  (Dragons is a first.  Usually it’s the people in our family, farm animals, vegetation.  You get the picture.)  Teaching the truth about God to a child is always a challenge but this little childhood song captures one aspect of God pretty well.  Whatever exists, God made.  And everything God made is good.  (You’ll remember that even the fallen angels were good, but having given them the ability to choose, they chose badly.  And I still haven’t figured out the good in cockroaches or mosquitos but that’s a blog for another time.)

So as you journey through today, sing along with Abby and fill in the blanks with what you see.  Everything God made is good.