Points2Ponder by Alan P. Scaglione

Sometimes, life is as simple as sitting in the water, at the beach, teaching your grandkids about Noah and the Ark.


Picture It: Middle of a beautiful day, just taking in the sun, playing with your grandkids, laughing about how scared they were that the water was going to eat them up, holding my granddaughter Macie Girl while Myty Mykai(mik-eye) pretended not to be scared. He is six now, and his little sister looks up to her “hero-in-training” brother, so he had to show her—he wasn’t afraid of the water, Right Nano? Right Mykai.

POINTS2PONDER Why do we think it’s so hard to teach children about God’s Word these days? Why do we think it’s so difficult to make them understand the stories of the Bible when there are real life examples surrounding them on a daily basis?

We just have to apply them while we are in them.

So I am sitting there, at the shore, with the water surrounding us, and I asked Mykai if he had ever heard about Noah and the Ark? He said he had not. I explained that God covered the land with water as far as the eye could see and Noah was on a boat with his family and animals clean by sevens and unclean by two.

Mykai thinks about it a minute, then he says,”Nano, how could God get water over the land?” And I pointed out all the water in front of us, then I asked him to turn around and see the land behind us. I then said, “What if the same water in front of you was behind you too?” He said, “but, how could that happen?”

And I just pointed down-- all around us was water, coming in, surrounding us on all sides.

Then Mykai has one of those AHA! Moments Oprah is famous for! He got this Big Smile on his face and said, “So that’s how God did it— land underneath, water on top!”

Lesson taught, lesson learned!

On the way home, I asked Mykai to tell us the story of Noah—he remembered it all…down to the Rainbow as a promise never to cover the earth with water again!

We make it so hard…harder than it is…just take the moments right in front of you, the nature all around you, and the stories will unfold themselves…sitting on the shore!

And he even remembered…”7x7 for clean animals; 2x2 for unclean!”

That’s more than MOST adults know about Noah’s Ark!