Golden Rules for Living for adults as well as children

(Author Unknown.)

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PART TWO



A STANDS FOR ANGEL

Joan Gale Thomas was born in 1910 in Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, England. She studied art at the Chelsea Illustrators Studio. After illustrating books for other authors, she wrote and illustrated her first book A Stands for Angel in 1939. In 1941, she married Richard Robinson, also an author and illustrator and began writing series books under the name of Joan Gale Robinson. However, she continued to write secular picture books using the name Thomas. Two of her most famous series were about a teddy bear named Teddy Robinson and a small girl named Mary-Mary. Both series were part of the Reading with Mother series published by Harrap in London. Ms. Robinson died in 1988.

We continue with the alphabet N - Z

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

stands for NOEL

  Is Noel,

The carol you hear

When Christmas time

Is drawing near.

The angels sang it

First, you know,

Nearly two thousand

Years ago;

And still we sing it

Just the same,

To tell the world

How Jesus came.

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we
forget that they are already someone today."

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

Was the Ox

was the Ox

So Patient and mild,

Who gave up his stall

For the Holy Child.

He didn't know why

The Baby had come,

For no one had told him

Of God and his Son ;

And yet, when he saw

All the light shining round,

He knew it was Jesus,

And knelt on the ground.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes 

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

 Is for Prayers

Stands for Prayers

That I say every night

Before I'm tucked up

And they turn out the light.

"Bless mummy and daddy,

And all girls and boys,

An please make me better,

And bless all my toys:

And if I've been naughty

Forgive me again,

And I'll try to be better

Tomorrow. Amen.".

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An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes 

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

is for Quiet

Is the Quiet,

So silent and still,

That lives in the church

On top of the hill.

I don't mean on Sunday,

When matin bell rings,

For then there's a service

And everyone sings

But on Monday or Tuesday,

When no one's around,

I've crept in alone

And there isn't a sound:

There's nothing I know

That's so peaceful and still

As the quiet that lives

In the church on the hill.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

- Is the Rain

Is the Rain

That's falling again

In shining streaks

On the window pane;

So I can't go out -

But I'm trying to think

That it's nice for the fields

To be getting a drink.

And if I keep watching,

Perhaps by and by

A rainbow may come

And brighten the sky.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes 

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

Is for Stars

That twinkle and peep

When the rest of the world

Is fast asleep -

God's little candles

High up in the skies,

They splutter and sparkle

And wink their bright eyes.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

   Is the Tree

   Is the Tree

That shines so bright

As we light the candles

On Christmas night.

A candle for you

And a candle for me,

And presents for all

On my Christmas Tree.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

Is the Universe

  Is the Universe,

Stars, Earth, and Sun,

And all things created

Since time was begun.

How great and mighty

The Maker must be

To think of a person

As little as me.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

Is the Vicar

Is the Vicar who comes to tea

And lifts me up to sit on his knee:

He tells me tales of the three Wise Men,

And Daniel who went in the lion's den;

And many more, and when they're done

He always tells a special one

About a baby (perhaps you'll guess,)

He christened her once in a long white dress;

And I was that baby he used to know :

But that was years and years ago.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes 

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

for Worship

  Stands for Worshipping;

Just thanking God for everything,

And praising Him as children should,

and asking Him to make us good.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

is a Letter

is a letter that's used such a lot,

it depends where it is if you like it or not.

When X is a cross, how sorry it looks

Besides the mistakes in exercise books :

But I'm sure you'll agree it looks very much better,

When X is the kiss at the end of a letter

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

is for YOU

stands for You and you'll see if you look,

That you've nearly arrived at the end of this book

One page to go then you're reading it through,

And I hope you've enjoyed it it's written for YOU.

An Alphabet of Sunday Rhymes

By the wonderful Joan Gale Thomas

     For a word

for a word isn't easy to find,

but "Zest" is the word that I have in my mind

If you really work hard with a Z for a Zest,

I think it just means that you're doing your best.