Genesis 6: 1-22; 7:24
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The Rainbow Promise
Daniel Migliore has done a lot of work with inner-city kids in Trenton, New Jersey. One day in re-telling the Noah story to some children, he asked them where they saw rainbows. “In the street!” several replied. Migliore thought they misunderstood the question, but he found that they understood perfectly. These kids lived in high-rise tenements and there were not a lot of open spaces around. About the only place they saw rainbows was in street puddles that had become slicked with oil from cars with leaky engines. There’s something sad about that, but there’s something hopeful as well. In the midst of daily life, in the midst of the difficulties and hardships around us, there is grace. These children need to see a rainbow in the greasy puddles of their everyday world...
Resources from 2018 to 2021
Liminal Lent: Noah
Some years back, the movie Evan Almighty came out, a follow up to Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty. In Evan Almighty, actor Steve Carrell plays a modern-day Noah. He’s newly elected to Congress, and looking to change the world, but he’s also looking to get ahead, to make a name for himself. And then he’s told to by God to build an ark. He doesn’t get an explanation, just a command that he slowly, reluctantly, bit by by starts to follow. Everyone else thinks he is ridiculous. They mock him. They shun him. But he holds firm, and eventually, through a strange series of events, his building the ark helps uncover corruption in his community...The Ark and the Rainbow
As most of you will remember, earlier this summer a soccer team and their coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand when heavy rains came and the cave flooded. The team went missing on June 23. Divers began searching for them on June 25 but had to suspend their searching for hours and even days at a time when rains came and flooded them out. Nine days after being trapped, the boys were located by a British diving team. The next day, seven Thai Navy Seals, including a doctor, made the 6 hour journey to the boys, bringing supplies. Four of them, including the doctor, stayed with them underground for the rest of their time in the cave. They were the very last to exit. The soccer team was trapped about 2 ½ miles from the entrance, at the end of what one diver called an underground obstacle course of rocky chambers, half-flooded canals and fully submerged sections. One of those fully submerged sections was 350 meters in length, more than 3 football fields, and the water was so muddy, he said it was like “swimming in coffee.” Experts said that realistically, given the shape they were in, they expected that if all went well, 60% of the boys would make it out alive. But the odds were decreasing all the time, and more heavy rain was on the way. So they made the difficult decision to go forward with the rescue...Just Remember
President George H.W. Bush liked to tell the story of something that happened to him once, on one of his official visits as President. That particular day he was touring a nursing home. As the President walked down the hall, trailed by his entourage of aides and reporters, he came upon an old man, who was slowly making his way towards him, leaning heavily on the hand rail. The President reached out, took the patient’s hand, and gently asked him,“Sir, do you know who I am?” The man stared back blankly, but then his eyes focused. Slowly he shook his head from side to side. “No,” he admitted, “I don’t know who you are. But if you ask the nurses they can tell you.”...
Resources from 2011 to 2017
Building on Sand
("There was once an architect. He had spent his career building beautiful houses for very rich people, and though he enjoyed his work and was good at it, gradually he began to envy those he designed for...")The Godward Side of Judgment
("In the Arthurian legend of Camelot, the moment of crisis arrives when King Arthur realizes that his favourite knight and bravest friend, Lancelot, and his wife, Queen Guinevere, have become lovers...")