Dear God,
I'm so
curious! I told Grandpa Noah the other day that I wish I had been born before
the flood, but he said I wouldn't have wanted to be born before the flood
because it was so sad to see how mean people were. He says Great Grandpa Lamech
prayed and prayed that You would fix it quick and then Grandpa Noah was born
and You told him to build the ark. That's pretty cool, but I just think it
would be fun to have friends I mean more than my brothers Elam and Asshur, and
my cousins Gomer, Magog, Cush, Mizraim and the little ones (Gen 10:2, 6, 22).
And maybe if I had friends they would've known about You and we could've taken
them on the ark too.
Or at
least I could've been born on the ark! Then I could've had all the pets I ever
wanted! Dad tells me stories about how he had to feed the elephants and how he
and Uncle Japheth would pet the lions and make Uncle Ham clean up all the bird
poop. Poor Uncle Ham, even before Grandpa Noah cursed him he got picked on by
his brothers cause he was the youngest of the three.
He got
cursed because Grandpa Noah actually made the first mistake and got drunk (Gen
9:21). I guess he was laying in his tent naked and Uncle Ham saw him. Instead
of covering him up and being respectful he went off and told Dad and Uncle
Japheth (Gen 9:22). So Dad and Uncle Japheth went in and covered him up (Gen
9:23). So Grandpa Noah blessed those two but cursed Uncle Ham (Gen 9:25-27). I
think Dad got the best blessing to have Uncle Ham's descendants be like slaves
to us. It seems pretty sad and kinda harsh to me, but Grandpa Noah says that
God deals harshly with sin and so he will too.
But I am
glad, God, that You did at least promise to never kill everyone again with a flood.
Sometimes I have nightmares when it's rainy, but Mom says that the rainbows are
a promise from You that "Never again will the waters become a flood to
destroy all life" (Gen 9:15).
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