Baptism of the ark

After I Peter 3:18-22

The eight remained inside,

riding the waves, tending

to the animals, shut up

inside against the rain

and flood. The boat 

heaved and rocked

with the waves, as 

the eight, with only

a spiritual rudder,

sailed through day

and night. The waters

washed all away,

all the evil that had

flourished, all the sin

that had taken place.

It was perhaps

the first baptism.

 

Photograph by Hans Isaacson via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

Love is patient – Kim Barnes at CDM Women’s Ministry.

The writing process: a mysterious and marvelous charisma – Michael A.G. Azad Haykin at Historia ecclesiastica: e-history. 

'Such were the works of Walsingham' - Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.