Wild and Domestic Animals Climb on Board

God Destroys and Recreates

Noah's Steadfast Faith

Genesis 7:11-16 The Message

11-12 It was the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
13-16 That’s the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons’ wives, boarded the ship. And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies. They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs—everything and anything that had the breath of life in it, male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.

For Reflection

Only animate creatures were on the ark; their DNA preserved. But, what about everything else, the inanimate earth and vegetation? If all things are interdependent what changes could have occurred?

According to the Smithsonian, we may get a clue from the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs.  In short, landforms changed and life sprang back. The land eroded and formed new masses at the end of rivers. (Eastern coastal flat lands are formed from particles washed from the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains.) Remnants of plants sprouted and the animals pollinated them and spread their seeds. Humans returned and God's grand evolutionary plan reset with Noah's progeny carrying God's spirit.  The divine order of the universe and God's intention for humankind preserved.

Well, that's what I think. Right or wrong the thought gives me hope.

Pray

Pray about all things. Pray so that God's wisdom flows through you. Pray so that you can stay in tune with the melodies of The Creation. Pray so that you continue to evolve into the Grace of God.


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