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