At the service today I am using a poem that will go with the sermon about Noah and God's Covenant with the Rainbow. I include the poem here for your use as devotional reading.
The Flood and Lent
Larry Linville
Scripture: Gen. 7:12
God saw the world was full of sin
and wanted to start over again.
Noah received a special mission
to build a boat that wasn’t for fishin’.
He loaded up animals two by two
and set off in his big floating zoo.
Forty days and forty nights it rained
but Noah’s family was sustained.
The church is symbolized by a boat
which the Holy Spirit keeps afloat.
We can get closer to God at Lent
when more time with the church is spent.
Our forty day Lenten journey can lead
to overcoming things that impede
in our efforts to start over anew
and do the things we know we should do.
© Copyright 2008 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Larry Linville has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
The Flood and Lent
Larry Linville
Scripture: Gen. 7:12
God saw the world was full of sin
and wanted to start over again.
Noah received a special mission
to build a boat that wasn’t for fishin’.
He loaded up animals two by two
and set off in his big floating zoo.
Forty days and forty nights it rained
but Noah’s family was sustained.
The church is symbolized by a boat
which the Holy Spirit keeps afloat.
We can get closer to God at Lent
when more time with the church is spent.
Our forty day Lenten journey can lead
to overcoming things that impede
in our efforts to start over anew
and do the things we know we should do.
© Copyright 2008 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Larry Linville has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
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