I have a rainbow painted in my office, as part of the awesome mural that Lucy made. I like it because it’s pretty, because it reminds me of a delicious roll of LifeSavers, and because it reminds me of God’s covenant with us. So I sometimes forget that God didn’t put the rainbow in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flood’
The string around God’s finger
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: covenant, flood, Noah, rainbow, remember
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Noah has more patience than I have. And maybe more faith. We think about the flood as lasting 40 days and 40 nights. But that was just the rain part. It took five months before the boat could even land on the first high mountain peak… two and a half more months to see other [...]
So here’s something I’ve always wondered: why did God have to wipe out all the plants and animals? Yes, I know – a pair of each kind of animal got saved (or seven pairs of the edible ones, according to verses 2 & 3). Was that to keep it proportional to how many humans were [...]
There’s an old (like, dinosaur old) comedy routine that Bill Cosby used to do about what the conversation between God and Noah must have been like. If you’ve never heard/seen it, you can watch it here: And here’s how another artist imagines this conversation: How do you imagine this conversation? Do you think Noah was [...]
