Safe above the flood

Safe above the floods

Temperatures leaped yesterday from below freezing up into the 50s. There is a lot of ground water.

Neighbors struggle with basements flooding and toilets backing up. Newscasters announce that sewer systems have been overwhelmed with melting snow banks and falling rain. So I am praying for my community.

Does God know or care about our weather? My sense of nature is that God controls the weather, and the weather God creates has no destructive elements. God's weather is a climate of blessing.

God gave Noah plans for building an ark to withstand a great flood coming down the pike. Noah built the ark and safely rode out the storm. I believe this concept of ark is universally available.

We can build arks today, only they are more mental and spiritual. Mary Baker Eddy defines "Ark" in her glossary of Bible terms, in part: “ARK. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth. . . God and man coexistent and eternal. . . ” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures)

My prayer centers on this concept of ark as keeping mankind safe and inseparable from, and guided by, God’s goodness and care.

He/She doesn't afflict or plan evil. Jesus expanded on Noah’s God of rescue by revealing more of His/Her nature as wholly good, a loving God who reveals solutions right where we are faced with problems.

This divine Love delivers us from the flood of bad news that sometimes feels overwhelming.

If there are practical steps we need to take, God will show us what these are, and how to take them.

This Love lifts us above the floods until they abate – much as Noah’s ark floated safely until the rains ended.

Just as the ark and everyone in it remained safe, so we can find our safety and security in God's active Love as well.