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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Bucking tradition
Now that Sarah is singing songs that I've sung to her and making up a few of her own, I realize she might be the "odd ball" in Sunday School. A while back, when she was just a baby, I'd sing all the old standbys to her and realized that "Jesus Loves the Little Children" is really racist in some of its wording. I'm not planning on passing on "Red" and "Yellow" as ways to describe a person's skin, so I substituted the line: "Brown and Black and Tan and White, They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world!" I know that someone could get all up in arms about this and ask,"Why not 'peach' since Caucasians aren't really white?", but I was just concerned with the words that have been used in a more racist context. Anyway, just a thought/FYI for any of you out there who will be teaching Sarah in her Sunday School classes...be prepared...
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I like your version but I sing "orange, and yellow, pink, and green strangest kids you've ever seen..."
Come to think of it the Ananias and Sapphira will probably raise more eye brows
have you taught her this one yet
Ananias and Sapphira
got together to conspire
a plot! to cheat! the Church and get ahead.
They knew God's power...did not fear it...
tried to cheat the Holy Spirit...
Peter prophesied it
they BOTH DROPPED DEAD!
Hey!
God loves a cheerful giver,
Give it all you got!
He loves to hear you laughing
When you're in a an awful spot...
So when the odds are up against you
And you cannot do a thing...
Praise God! To praise Him is a joyful thing!
Emily - I LOVE the orange, yellow, pink and green version! How cool!
And I haven't even heard of the Ananias and Sapphira song... We'll have to do that lunch I proposed oh so long ago and you can sing it to us! ;)
That is so funny because I was just singing that to Sam today and I also was concerned about the non-PC nature of the version we sang, so this is what I came up with:
Every nation, every tribe,
They are precious in His sight
Then I don't run the risk of offending anyone on skin color!
I love the other ideas you two had though!
Changing the words to a beloved kids song? Scandalous. What next, changing our beloved hymns?
yall are too funny...I don't think I could change that song..I love it too much!
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