Lots in Genesis today. Cain and Abel, to start with. I never really thought before about God speaking to Cain personally. People talk about how, after the garden of Eden, God didn't walk with man anymore or have that type of relationship. Yet here he is, having multiple conversations with Cain. Not just decrees, conversations. And I wonder if God spoke to all of Adam and Eve's children. Because we only see it recorded with Cain. Not Abel, the "good" one. Cain.
Also, I never noticed how the legacy of murder continued with Cain's children. I guess it continued with all mankind. But it specifically linked Lamech with Cain.
And then we get to Noah and the flood. Right now, where I am, it's overcast and drizzling sleet. And I'm pretty much not wanting to get off the couch. Really I wouldn't be out of bed if the puppies hadn't insisted on it. And I think of 40 days and 40 nights of rain and think...ugh.
A few years ago, in Oklahoma, we had over 20 days and nights of rain. Solid rain. I remember talking to my mom and some other people and all of us were literally developing depression from the lack of sunshine. (Side note about how the pacific NW allegedly has the highest rates of depression and fewest days of sunshine.)
I can only imagine being stuck on a boat, full of livestock, no one but your family, and constant rain and thunder, for over 40 days. Because there was all that time waiting for the earth to soak up enough water for them to get out of the boat, too, remember. I'm glad God picked Noah and not me. He wouldn't have picked me anyway. I'm hardly the most righteous person I know. But that's a tangent.
On a lighter note, whenever I think of Noah and the flood, this comes to mind:
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