Daddy, where are all the people?
Feb 17, 2010
Just had to share this...
Last night, Grace and I were going through her bible study and it was on Noah and the flood. We were going through the story and some questions fairly easy. Then all of the sudden when we started to talk about how high the water was on the whole earth something started to sink in for my five year old. She looked at me and said, Daddy, where are all the people?
It started sinking in that if Noah, his wife, Noah's three sons and their wives along with the animals were all that were safe on the ark that something dreadful was happening to all the other people on the earth. I responded to her questioin simply saying, They all died. It was at this moment that I believe the seriousness of Noah and the dreadful flood sunk in with her. Before I think it was a cute little story with animals, a big boat and a beautiful rainbow at the end. Now I think she realizes that the world was wiped clean of human life except for those on the ark.
Comments
Coleman Ford on Feb 19, 2010 5:06am
Hopefully there weren't any realistic pictures involved. It's interesting to think that Scripture is filled with lots of stories that aren't exactly "kid-friendly."