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By: Curtis Baker

One of my favorite childhood memories is the year we got to enter the big fish during our Vacation Bible School. We had a number of very creative people in my home congregation, and during that particular year’s VBS they had figured out how to create a large fish out plastic. At the base end of the fish was a giant fan that blew up the plastic fish into a small dome. With great delight, we children got to learn about the story of Jonah as we listened to our teacher from inside the fish’s extended belly.

The story of Jonah and the fish has long been a story that has captured the imagination of children. To envision a man living inside the belly of a fish for three days is enough to send any child’s mind into a frenzy of delight. Myself, I remember picture books of Jonah inside the belly, with a small oil lamp to see by. That picture doesn’t represent reality very well, but it was part of the fun of imagining what that experience must have truly been like.

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