I Know God Loves Me Because...

Today at church we had the Primary Program. In the LDS church, Primary is the class for children under 12 years old. So, the Primary Program is put together yearly so that those children have speaking and singing parts in Sacrament Meeting, the main meeting of the 3-hour church block. It's usually really cute and stuff.

There was a part in today's program where all the children were saying why they knew God or Jesus loved them. Some of them were goshdarn cute, while others were slightly puzzling with their childlike logic.

Well, one stood out to me.

"I know God loves me because if he didn't, he never would have made me."

That's actually a really effective statement. First of all, you can feel good about yourself because you know, as one other person put it at church "God don't make no junk". Second of all, you can use that to look at other people and realize God loves them too (and so should you).

Third, you can use it to look at everything God has made, and realize that God loves all of it, or he never would have made it. So, that includes animals. Yes. Even snakes and spiders. God loves them. What kind of twisted God would make something he doesn't love? Our God is not like that. At least mine isn't.

I know God loves animals because if he didn't, he never would have made them.

Yay for kids. Sometimes it's good to look at things simply.