God Made People

In the beginning when God made the world, He made the land and the sky, the sun and the moon, plants and animals, and the last thing he made was a man.  The Bible says that He made man like you would make somethng out of playdough.  God took clay out of the ground to make a man.  God pushed it and rolled it and formed it into just the right shape.  He made man to look like God.  God has a face, so he made the man have a face, too.  What is on your face?   Eyes.  God wanted the man to see, so he made eyes.  What else?  God wanted him to hear, so he made the man with ears.  God can smell things, too, so he gave us a nose.  And God wants us to talk to him, so he gave us a mouth.  God feels, too.  He gets angry, and sorry, and so he gave the man a heart, too.  He formed him with arms and hands, legs and feet and toes, and he made his whole body out of clay.  He wanted the man to be alive. So He breathed into the man, so that he came to life.  That was the very first man and God named him Adam. God put him in a garden with rivers and trees and lots of good things to eat. Then God said, it's not good for the man to be alone.  There were animals in the garden, too.  God brought the animals to Adam to see what he would call them.  So Adam gave names to all the animals.  When he saw an animal that could swing in the trees, and eat bananas and make a laughing sound, Adam called that a ______.  A monkey, yes!  When Adam saw an animal with a long neck that ate the leaves up in the tops of the trees and had long legs he called that a ________. Giraffe! Then there was a huge animal with a trunk for a nose and big floppy ears.  Adam called that an _________. Elephant.  Do you know what he named a little furry creature that wiggles its nose like this?  With long ears?  And hops around?  A rabbit.  How about the one that lives in a shell, and sticks out its head and feet and goes really slow.  That's right, a turtle.  The man named all the animals, but even with all those animals there wasn't anyone there who was like him.  God knew the man needed a helper that he could talk to, someone who could understand him.  So the Lord God made the man go to into a deep sleep.  He made Adam sleep so good that he didn't even feel it when God reached in and took one of his ribs out.  Can you feel those long bones that grow above your tummy?  God took one out of Adam.  He closed up the skin so that it wouldn't bleed.  And God took the rib and made it grow bigger and made a beautiful shape.  He made it into a woman, a mommy.  And he brought her to the man.  When the man saw her, he said this one is for me.  Her bones are my bones, and her body is from my body.  I will call her a woman, because she was made from me.  God made a man and a woman to join together and become like one person.  That way when they grow up they can leave their mommy and daddy and they won't be alone because they will have each other.  The man and the woman can be together and share their food.  They can give each other a hug and keep each other warm when it gets cold.  God loves us very much and He knows what we need.  He made mommies and daddies, and he made you, too.