0310b IN THE BEGINNING (“TRANSLATION” OF JOHN 1)

IN THE BEGINNING

In the beginning, way back at the start

was a great big God-sized THINK that He thought

That thought that He thunk well He said it out loud

and the Word that it formed as it turns out was God

Yes His Name and His Nature is God

That Word started it all

It all started with Him

And without Him ain’t nothing that is would have been

And it outshines the dark and the dark cannot hide

For it fills every corner with the brightest of light

Yes His name and His nature is light

And that true light who gives true light to all men

Came to enter the world he’d created for them

He was there in the world with the Word and the light

He came to His kin but some preferred night

Yet to all who accept him, to all who believe

He turns into children not born of man’s need

or a husband’s decision or the plans of a wife

But born of the Spirit of God who gives life

For his name and his nature is life

So the Word put on skin and He settled right in

and His eyes shone the radiant glory within

We took a good look and we all were amazed

At the trueness of truth and the graceness of grace

For his name and his nature is truth and his nature is grace

So when God has a word that He means for the crowd

He’ll whisper it softly He’ll shout it out loud

and He’ll write it all down and display it above

You ask what was the word?

I knew him as Jesus

You might know Him as love

For his name and his nature is love

Yes his name and his nature is love