Lectionary Reading - Genesis 6:11-22
This poem is dedicated to all who remember the hurricane season of 2004. May we never forget God's awesome power and infinite love.
Second Chances
Oh, how You must have suffered as You watched mankind with woe,
Continually be evil and pretend, then, not to know.
And how You tried to warn them as they lived their lives in sin,
Until You made Your mind up that mankind should start again.
So then it fell to Noah and his family so obedient
To build an ark and fill it in a way that was expedient.
In modern times we've worried about rains and floods. We've had 'em,
But forty days and forty nights of rain we cannot fathom.
As water spread throughout the earth, did people understand
That they had gone too far this time, and You would take their land?
Oh, what You must have gone through as You gave a final glance.
Your children would be sacrificed to give a second chance.
You put a rainbow in the sky, so You would not forget,
But mankind did and, like a child, forgot it had been wet.
Your patience, tested once again, was not to be undone.
Our last chance was Your precious gift. Our last chance is Your Son.
Heavenly Father, giver of so many chances, thank You for this joyful season and all those with whom we share it. Amen
Becky Warren
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