Once upon a
time there was a little brown eyed girl. She was called Cotton Top, Little
Sunshine and Pepperpot. She talked nonstop. She had a grin from ear to ear
except when she was having a quick temper fit. Her Mama taught her “Jesus loves me!
this I know, For the bible tells me so.”
Before she
even started school her cotton top turned dark. The sunshine went away. Her brown eyes were sad. Her grin disappeared. She stopped talking so much. But she
knew “Jesus loves me! this I know, For the bible tells me so.”
She grew up. She got married. She was still sad. She had little boys and a girl of her own. Some had brown eyes
and some had blue. Some were cotton tops. Some of them talked a lot. There were
some pepper pots and some sad ones. She taught them “Jesus loves me! this I
know, For the bible tells me so.”
Then one of
her little brown eyed boys ran home to be with Jesus. The night was long and
dark and scary. The sad went deeper in her heart. She struggled with everything
she knew about “Jesus loves me! this I know, For the bible tells me so.”
She lived in
the dark for a long time. No sunshine. No grin. Only the sad and dark and
scary things. Then one day she turned around. She looked up. She saw the sunshine.
She believed “Jesus loves me! this I know, For the bible tells me so.”
Her once cotton
top is turning silver now. She lives in the sunshine. Sometimes she is a pepperpot.
Sometimes she talks nonstop. She has a big grin. She knows, that she
knows, that she knows that “Jesus loves me! this I know, For the bible tells me
so.”
And she wears red shoes: for courage and to celebrate!
