started helping out with services at my church the bear on deptford high street as they have recently started having two services on a sunday.at the moment they are going through hebrews looking at heros of faith. today's service was about noah
Noah is a strange story that’s difficult to believe yet probably the most popular story in the bible judging by children’s books and toys. Not many wooden models of Isaiah are there?
yet he le was a man full of contradictions
he lived to 950 in an era of giants called nephalim
was the inventor of wine and first ever drunkard
he exposed himself to his children
was the first meat eater
was very good at collecting animals and building boats
A man who divides opinion either "the man in a fur coat," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour. Or a deliberately slow builder who stretching the building of the ark over 120 years, in order to give sinners time to repent.
he was also a hero of faith and an heir of righteousness who was blameless and righteous.
quite a complex and difficlt character
So thought I would plan something about rainbows instead.
i wrote this medtation for the service
In rainbows
To scientists it is an optical and meteorological phenomena that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. a multicoloured arc; a continuous spectrum of colours from red to violet. a dispersion of sunlight as it goes through raindrops.
To Newton it is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
To the forgetful it is Richard Of it is a flag symbolizing a new era of hope and social change
To cooperatives it is their symbol of a democratic model of commerce
To protestors it is a symbol of peace in times of war
To gays it is a symbol of pride and an acceptance of difference
To hippies it is a naive fashion statement
To photographers it is an excuse to stop the car
To Greenpeace it is a symbol of environmentalism
To worship leaders it is the guitar strap of choice
To radiohead it is a revolution in music distribution
To corporations it is a signifier for innocence and playfulness
To children it is red and yellow and pink and green; orange and purple and blue
To thirty somethings it is Geoffrey, Bungle and George
To Greeks it is a path made by the messenger Iris between god and man
To the Chinese it is a slit in the sky that has been sealed by god
To Hindus it is the bow of the god Indra, the god of lightening and thunder
To Vikings it is a bridge between the gods and man
To the Irish it is the location of an unobtainable pot of gold
To Christians it is a divine promise never to destroy all earthly life again
To Noah it is the reward for his faith
It is all these things
It is a powerful and sublime image.
It means so much to so many.
Let us learn from the beliefs of others
we also used the sony bravia adverts as mini meditations
Noah is a strange story that’s difficult to believe yet probably the most popular story in the bible judging by children’s books and toys. Not many wooden models of Isaiah are there?
yet he le was a man full of contradictions
he lived to 950 in an era of giants called nephalim
was the inventor of wine and first ever drunkard
he exposed himself to his children
was the first meat eater
was very good at collecting animals and building boats
A man who divides opinion either "the man in a fur coat," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour. Or a deliberately slow builder who stretching the building of the ark over 120 years, in order to give sinners time to repent.
he was also a hero of faith and an heir of righteousness who was blameless and righteous.
quite a complex and difficlt character
So thought I would plan something about rainbows instead.
i wrote this medtation for the service
In rainbows
To scientists it is an optical and meteorological phenomena that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. a multicoloured arc; a continuous spectrum of colours from red to violet. a dispersion of sunlight as it goes through raindrops.
To Newton it is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
To the forgetful it is Richard Of it is a flag symbolizing a new era of hope and social change
To cooperatives it is their symbol of a democratic model of commerce
To protestors it is a symbol of peace in times of war
To gays it is a symbol of pride and an acceptance of difference
To hippies it is a naive fashion statement
To photographers it is an excuse to stop the car
To Greenpeace it is a symbol of environmentalism
To worship leaders it is the guitar strap of choice
To radiohead it is a revolution in music distribution
To corporations it is a signifier for innocence and playfulness
To children it is red and yellow and pink and green; orange and purple and blue
To thirty somethings it is Geoffrey, Bungle and George
To Greeks it is a path made by the messenger Iris between god and man
To the Chinese it is a slit in the sky that has been sealed by god
To Hindus it is the bow of the god Indra, the god of lightening and thunder
To Vikings it is a bridge between the gods and man
To the Irish it is the location of an unobtainable pot of gold
To Christians it is a divine promise never to destroy all earthly life again
To Noah it is the reward for his faith
It is all these things
It is a powerful and sublime image.
It means so much to so many.
Let us learn from the beliefs of others
we also used the sony bravia adverts as mini meditations
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