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Noah Revisited
During Advent, members of the A Nun’s Life community will be posting reflections on the Jesse Tree and the O Antiphons.
Day 4 :: Noah written by Audra from the blog The Awkward Catholic
As a child of the Catholic school system advent meant one thing: paper crafts. One of the most popular crafts was the Jesse tree. This was my favorite because it was the most involved and took the longest. Each day we would learn about a person represented in the Jesse tree and then draw a symbol of that person. I liked how each symbol had a story behind it — this probably explains my love of Icons today.
My favorite symbol — besides Jesus — was Noah. I liked Noah because I got to draw animals. (Although Noah is sometimes represented by rainbow.)
Now that I’m older, my relationship with the Jesse tree and Noah has matured. I now look to the Jesse tree as a rich history of the people who have shaped our Jewish/ Christian stories. They are the roots of our family tree.
I view the Noah story as one of sustainability and responsibility to our animal friends — that God loved her creatures so much as to save two of each kind so they could be cared for and enjoyed for future generations. Of course, one can not forget the covenant God made to Noah, his family and the animals after the flood. God promised to never destroy the earth by a flood again.
It’s amazing that as we grow the Bible stories of our youth grow with us. Sometimes the childish reasons stay with us — I still like drawing animals — but the meanings of the stories deepen and shape who we are as Christians. This Advent I want to take a person from the Jesse tree and revisit them to see how my view has of their story has changed.
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One of my favorite persons of the Bible. Did you ever see the movie Evan Almighty? I did not expect to like it as much as I did — it had some of the messages of sustainability and creaturely responsibility and child-like joy that you write about!
i’m confused. who wrote this? audra, or regina?
Audra