Old Turtle
By Douglas Wood
Watercolors by Cheng-Khee Chee
Once, long long ago . . .
yet somehow, not so very long . . .
when all the animals and rocks . . .
and all could understand each other . . .
There began . . . AN ARGUMENT.
God is a swimmer
God is a twinkling... far away . . . A feeling... very close . . . .
God is a runner... with the wind
She is a...tree. . . an island. . . far above
He is a river
God is indeed . . .
God IS.
... and the people came.
But the people forgot.
And after a long, lonesome and scary time . . .
. . . the people listened, and began to hear . . . to see God. . .
. . . in the beauty of all the Earth.