Today's flooding rains are a timely backdrop for Sunday's first reading about God's covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8-15.) A myth is a story that captures an eternal truth. The eternal truth that Noah and the ark captures is that God is always ready to start over with the human race, no matter what evil we have done: slavery, prejudice against blacks, anti-Semitism, abuse of our fragile planet, wars, evil governments, tolerating shootings, poverty, sickness. The rainbow is God's promise to keep on loving his creation.
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