"isn't Noah and the Ark such a cute story about death and destruction?"
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Filed in: daily photos
| deep thoughts
we’ve been talking a
lot lately (both at RH
and in my internship class at Biola) about how we
tell stories. mostly, we’ve been talking about how we
tend to tell them wrong.
for instance, we make Noah and the Ark this cute little story we tell kids about animals and boats. we make it so cute that people make little cartoon pictures about it and put them up in nurseries and whatnot. this is jacked up.
Noah’s story is about God’s vengeance on a world that had forsaken Him and His covenant with all of creation thereafter. He destroyed the world. i totally understand why we would celebrate this with our youngest children. (that’s called sarcasm... there’s no really good way to denote that in text.)
anyway, i was out shopping tonight for ugly Christmas sweaters (for our staff party tomorrow) and i saw this and it made me laugh because it’s EXACTLY what i’ve been talking about. enjoy.
for instance, we make Noah and the Ark this cute little story we tell kids about animals and boats. we make it so cute that people make little cartoon pictures about it and put them up in nurseries and whatnot. this is jacked up.
Noah’s story is about God’s vengeance on a world that had forsaken Him and His covenant with all of creation thereafter. He destroyed the world. i totally understand why we would celebrate this with our youngest children. (that’s called sarcasm... there’s no really good way to denote that in text.)
anyway, i was out shopping tonight for ugly Christmas sweaters (for our staff party tomorrow) and i saw this and it made me laugh because it’s EXACTLY what i’ve been talking about. enjoy.