Day 8

Okay I've lost track of the journaling on a regular basis, however,  I'm keeping up with the reading & feel that is more important. 

While reading I've not had any major epiphanies per se, however, I've had some questions & some aha moments.

First I want to say that I could have spent 3 months researching all the descendants of Noah & where they ended up.  I find it fascinating that 6 people (Noah had 3 sons & each had a wife - Noah & his wife had no more children after the flood)  completely repollutated the earth after the flood.  I also enjoyed seeing names of people in the linage such as Tarshish & knowing that he was a mariner that is probably why that town was so far away from everything else, BTW southern Spain is very lovely no wonder he settled there. 

My second thought I had the other day was since all these people descended from Noah surely they must have at least heard about the flood & God & how he spared their grandfather, great grandfather, etc.  Did any of them still call on His name.  the bible doesn't really mention it.   I know that the Israelites are God's chosen people but did no one else on earth remember the Lord other than Abraham. 

One thing that has been revealed to me & not really through my reading but perhaps my thoughts have been influenced due to it.  Nothing I have is my own.  Yes I know that but not even the house I live in 7 call mine is mine.  God has not given it to me.  He simply allows me to borrow it from him.  I call Elaina Sis.  It started out mostly because she's Elias' sister then I had an aha moment.  She's my sister also.  Yes I already knew this but the realization was that I am not training up my children but my sister and brother. then the thought occured to me if I had to raise up my siblings or someone elses children how would I speak differently to them thatn i currently speak to the children i've been entrusted to raise.  I realized if God had come like a parent & dropped off His children to watch for him & I know that I'd talk much more pleasantly thatn I do now.  So it is something I'm going to work on.  I know in my role as a teacher I had way more patients for the children others entrusted to me at school to mold & shape for 6 hours a day for 180 days, than the two precious ones that God has entrusted to me to mold & shape their entire childhoods.