“Jesus loves me! this I know, For the bible tells me so.”

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!