Wow, God!

All week at Vacation Bible School the kids learned a "festal shout," two big words for whenever they saw how amazing God is. Wow, God! This VBS Sunday children's message starts there, with the line from our psalm, happy are the people who know the festal shout, and turns it loose on a place every kid in Keller knows: the Fort Worth Zoo. There is a marker at the zoo that tells a story most people walk right past. Long ago a flood washed the very first Fort Worth Zoo away, but the people found safe, higher ground and started it over, and it became the oldest zoo in Texas, still open today. That one little sign carries almost everything the kids learned this week. God made everything. God knows everything. God is our safe place. And God is forever. The loudest Wow of all comes last, the one we save for the end: God is love, shown on a cross and an empty tomb, a love that lasts forever and ever. A short, joyful message for the whole family, with plenty of room for the kid...