By Chad Hershberger

One of the joys of my job is time spent planning for summer camp. I enjoy program planning very much, so working on creative ideas, setting a course for how they might run, and then implementing the plan is exciting to me.

I’ve begun working on an outline for our last week of this summer. It’s a classic camp with a twist—we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss. There are many resources to do Dr. Seuss-themed worships, and I’ve been combing through them to pick out my favorites. We will also look at the gospel message in some of Dr. Seuss’ books, so I’ve been studying the book The Gospel According to Dr. Seuss.

We did a similar week about a dozen years ago when we had a joint week with our Christian siblings from the Episcopal Church. I still had some of those resources filed in my computer and so I’ve been taking a look at them. I came across something I wrote back then and thought it would be fun to share it with you here.

Our theme what year was “Crosswalk” and our theme verse was Micah 6:8. I decided to write The Prophet Micah in the style of Dr. Seuss, and I share it here with you.

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A way down south, in the land of Judah,
Lived the prophet Micah, telling others what to do-ah.

God chose him a very long time ago
To tell the people what they should know.

Micah spoke directly to Jerusalem
To the people who didn’t eat ham

He and other prophets tried to show the way-a
Men like Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea

Micah, the destruction of Samaria, predicted
And Jerusalem, they were becoming wicked

He told God’s truth, even if it was bad news
He often gave the people there a fit of the blues

Telling them they lied and cheated, he once dished
He even told them they were wasteful and selfish.

They had forgotten what it meant to share
And show other people that they truly cared.

That’s not the way God wanted them to live
He wanted them to open their hearts and really give

He also spoke of hope, about a baby to be born
In Bethlehem, a savior to purge the scorn

So Micah gave a speech and he told the people
That what the Lord required was really quite simple

Do justice to others, show kindness, and love
And walk humbly with your God.

We learn from this prophet, Micah by name
To help the sick, and the blind, and the lame

And do what we can do, to serve one another
After all, it is good, and what is required.