I wrote this story for my young friends, but I've been asked to share it with adults too:
Dear friends,
Here is another way to tell the Noah story. See what you think:
Once upon a time, long, long ago, in another part of the world, there was a very bad storm. Maybe something like “Super Storm Sandy” that happened here in October 2012!
It rained…
…and it rained…
…and it rained!
The rivers and lakes flooded, and a lot of people who lived near the rivers and lakes were killed by the flooding. Now the people living there did not know how big the world really was, so it seemed to them that the whole earth was being flooded....