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THE SIMPLE MESSAGE
(with profound apologies to Dr. Suess)
By Steve Case
Way far away and a long time ago
Back in the past where no one can go
In a tiny small town of fishes and men
Was a crazy young rabbi who was at it again
He went out preaching
He went out teaching
And he never once stopped the constant beseeching
That people look out for each other with care
And stop all the griping about who’s here or there
He said he was Jesus
They said he was God
But there were those all around him
Who thought his behavior quite odd
The man ate with sinners
Taxmen and hookers
And He would call out to
The crowd of onlookers
I didn’t come for the healthy I came for the sick
They too are God’s children.
You don’t get to pick
And then he walked about town and saw the cold and the hunger
Old folks and young folks and some even younger
He’d stop and he’d feed
and heal up their souls
He touched the untouchable
Made the broken feel whole
He finally decided not to do this alone
He needed a team, a good cornerstone
And he gathered up those and called them disciples
They would be his examples
They would be his archetyples
He called Peter the rock
And Andrew his brother
James and then John in spite of their mother
He called Bart and then Phillip
He called Thomas and Thad
And Matthew who guarded the money they had
A zealot named Simon and another man named James
Finally Judas was added to the names
He called Mary, and Mary, and Martha her sister
Who all got less credit because of who wrote the scripture.
Jesus called them his friends and he made them his own
And sent them out to the world
Across desert and stone
To take folks the news
That God loves them so.
Heaven’s not about rules and who gets to go
But that God is here with them, right now and right here
They were God’s eyes, his hands, and his ears
He sent them out proud into a world that was cruel
To the nations they went without food, without fuel
Their message was clear.
God loves you. That’s all.
We’ve managed to take it pen and with scrall
And fill up volumes of rules of who can and can’t go
We’ve taken the message of long long ago
And squeeze it and press it and package it so
We can sell it and buy and fill up a store
Till it’s not even close to what it was before.
God’s simple message
Relayed by his son
God loves you.
That’s it.
That’s all.
We’re done.
Copyright 2006 Steve Case. Permission is granted to send this to others, with attribution, but not for commercial purposes.
