Stories from the Vigil: Flood

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Part of what we do during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday is to re-tell the old stories of faith that assure us of God's ongoing faithfulness from creation all the way through resurrection.  For the rest of this week, we will focus on six of those stories told at the Vigil as a reminder that the empty tomb is the ultimate expression of promise and salvation from a God who has yet been promising and saving throughout all of history.

Our second story was the story of the Flood.

Yesterday, I was reading the comics and Peanuts managed to capture the essence of the story's importance in a short four frames:

http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2012/04/10#mutable_769194

It is certainly part of the human existence to feel flooded sometimes, overwhelmed and washed away. But God promises that we will not be destroyed, no matter how deep the waters.

If we're talking about floods, the song "Flood" by Jars of Clay comes to mind. It definitely gets at this dual feeling of being overwhelmed but trying to trust God's promises.

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