A Bag Full of Colors (jelly bean prayer)

card #2 with Charlene's poem || topper #2 || and a tag
A card with Charlene's poem || and a bag topper for you.

Welcome!
I suppose you're here looking for the "Jelly Bean Prayer" poem.

Well, the "Jelly Bean Prayer" poem was and still is "A Bag Full of Colors",
written and published by Charlene Dickerson, in 1997.

Charlene wrote it for her Bible Class
The craft instructions were:
"Place small tiny pompoms, jellybeans or M&M's in a clear ziplock bag or tube.
Use this poem to make a tag/topper for it."

Then along came some greedy, thoughtless, law breaking, bible reading thief that took Charlene's poem.
Charlene's name was then removed from her poem and renamed the "Jelly Bean Prayer".

The end result of this ignorant act is that now we have a whole bunch of Christians websites with stolen content.

All Charlene wants is credit for her poem.

If you find anything on the Web with "author unknown" or without a name, "don't use it!".
copyright myths || copyright FAQ || plagiarism

What some people do and say in the name of God makes me shiver.

Please, no more Godsangels emailing me and saying "who cares who wrote it".
Well, why don't I take your Christian website, add it to mine and do with it as I please, then?
Also ask yourself this "did you get written permission from the author to use this poem?"
If not, then what are you telling the Christian world, when you yourself have stolen content on your Christian website?
Thou shall not Steal, unless you have a Christian website on the internet and lack the ability to write your own content?

Another thing that I get is: "prove it that it's Charlene Dickerson's poem".
"No!" they've it wrong. They should be proving to me that this poem doesn't belong to Charlene Dickerson.

I'm not going to waste my time doing that anymore anyway, instead I'm going to snicker to myself knowing that some Christian websites or Bible readers have stolen content and they're doing it all in the name of God.
We tried to help, but you know how it is, they don't want to know. "Too much work", they say. Stealing it in the name of God is easier, I suppose.

Also, don't waste your time praying for me, (GodsAngels) I don't think God would be answering any prayers from people breaking one of His commandments anyway. Instead I suggest you get off chair and write your own content and "yes" don't add your name to it or copyright your website, just let people take it all in the name of God.

To the person that removed Charlene's Bible crafts from her website, thank you.

Want to know which Christian sites are doing this?
Just do a search on "jelly bean prayer".

Luci Ritchie
March 24, 2007