Come, Dear Child and Let Me Tell You

 Part I

Come, dear child and let me tell you

As we stroll across the day

About One who made the morning

And the night that fades away

How He spoke into the blackness

Commanding, ‘let there be Light’

And how Time from that day forward

Became morning, noon and night

Come, dear child, the whole world surges

With the beauty God has made

See the dappled sun and shadow

Where the willow spreads its shade

See the grass, the tree, the song-bird

As it flits from limb to limb

Butterfly and lovely flower

All designed and shaped by Him

See the fish that fill the ocean

And the puddles after rain

Cow and sheep out in the meadow

Sweeping fields of corn and grain

Come dear, child and look around you

Every stem that sprouts from sod

Is a glimpse of the Creator

For it is the work of God

Part II

Come dear child and let me show you

The most wondrous thing of all

See this picture of a cross

Covered in red where blood-drops fall

See the One who hangs there dying

Nails pierced though precious Jesus

High above the earth His crying

Pleads that God would forgive us

Jesus loves the little children

And He longs for you to know

How He made the earth and heavens

Oh, so very long ago

And the One who made the flowers

Every bird and every tree

Is the God whose own Son, Jesus

Died for us on Calvary

Come dear child and let me tell you

As we stroll across the day

How the precious blood of Jesus

Washes all our guilt away

Yes, He made winter and summer

Everything in spring and fall

But dear child, then God made people

And He loves us best of all

© Janet Martin