What’s the first song you ever learned? There are some perennial children’s favorites, such as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and in Sunday school, “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know.” But the odds are pretty good that for some of you here this morning, one of the first songs or maybe even the very first song you learned was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

What an interesting lamb it was, not because its fleece was white as snow, but because of what it did …it followed Mary everywhere. One day it even followed her …where? Yes, to school. The song tells us that such behavior in a lamb was against the rule. I should think so. I mean, children have a hard enough time getting down to their studies without a lamb frolicking about in the classroom. The song tells us that “it made the children laugh and play…