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Wednesday 5 December 2012

Seven Days of Creation



Light and darkness,

Water and sky,

Dry land; green plants.

Sun moon and stars go glittering by,

Fish in the ocean, birds in the sky.

Animals and man,

God's rest was in His plan.


Copyright Jo Collett 2010

This was a little song I made up to help anyone learn the seven days of creation and what was created on each day. Kids can count off the days on their fingers for reinforcement. There is a tune, which I will try to explain below in the absence of finding any easy software to create and include it (it can be easily played by anyone on a child's descant recorder):

G E G E
GG  E  G
F D  E  lowC
G EE G E GG E G
F CC F C, F F E C
G E G E G
G F C F E C

(where notes are grouped together they are quavers, and you might need to draw out the last note at the end of the phrases - if you match the notes to the syllables of the words there should be no problem)
Some writers refer to the "six days of creation". Because the Bible refers to the seventh day specifically in the context of the account of creation in Genesis 2:2, many people refer to the seven days of Creation. The concept of resting following activity is an important one and has spiritual parallels in the concept of entering into "God's rest" which is developed in the New Testament e.g. in the book of Hebrews, chapter 4.

For more information regarding creation- the creation vs. evolution debate, modern science and the Bible accounts of creation, I recommend visiting the website of Creation Ministries International at
www. creation.com  (link on this page)



Flame trees blossoming after recent rains.




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