Our Budding Song Writer

On Sunday we attended church with Dad and Mom Howard in Bismarck. It has a large sanctuary with screens on either side of the stage. During one of the songs, a spacey background with stars, planets and galaxies rolled behind the lyrics. Isaac was enthralled. After we arrived home he set to work at his desk and wrote these lyrics with accompanying graphics...



For those who have trouble deciphering first grade English (me too -- I had to ask him what it said in a few places) here is a translation.

"Oh Lord, I love you more than a toy. You can reach out of the Milky Way. You are "foller" (huh?) than the solar system. You're bigger than the universe."
(Next)
"The Lord is greater than anything, not even legos."
(Next)
"Nothing can stop God."

I had a few reactions, the first being, "Thank-you Lord for wooing Isaac's heart to you! This is an answer to my most earnest prayers!"

The second was, "Apparently Legos rank right up there with the universe and God."

The third was, "Good grief. Our daily spelling lessons are having no effect whatsoever on his phonetically driven writing." Oh well, he's got a few more grades to get it figured out. I'm just glad he enjoys writing!