In the Beginning (Anthology) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bible, Religion, Christianity, Historical, supernatural, social issues, family
ISBN: 9781942664741
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Published: 2016-10-03T07:00:00+00:00

A few days later at the store, my father complained to me that Noah’s middle son, Shem, came to him spouting some of his father’s craziness.

“The Lord will send a flood.” Shem told him, “Abandon your gods and pray to the one true God.”

“And,” my father continued to quote Shem, “his father’s God is going to send a flood. A Flood! The rivers are going to rise up out of their banks, and the seas will join them, and everyone except Noah and his family, of course, will drown!”

My father laughed and wiped the dust off of his face.

That night, I complain to Gareth when we are alone. “Do you believe that? He is telling my father, an elder, that he should abandon his gods and follow another.”

“Noah insists that there is only one god! One god who made all of this, who handles everything!”

Gareth nods in agreement. “What a god that must be,” he says, “to rule over harvests and the seas, and the sky and the weather, and over the women and the babies.”

This is so ridiculous, we fall on his bed, laughing.

“That is a lot for one god to concern himself with. Their god must be really busy.” Gareth says, stealing a kiss.

Ham has begun shouting at people in the square on the rare occasion when he comes through the gates of the city, just like the rest of his family. Everyone is complaining about them.

I heard that Ham recently stopped the boys playing in the square with their wooden swords, fighting make-believe battles.

“Do not fight!” he told them, “Do not go to war. God wants us to be peaceful,” he chided. When he turned away, the boys picked up their wooden toy swords once more and ran after him, shaking their weapons at his back and laughing.

Gareth continues to walk to the valley and watch Noah whenever my father can spare him.

Almost every night when I visit with him, he tells me stories about Noah.

“You should see how many animals they have out there now!” he tells me.

“It takes all day to feed those beasts. And the hay, the grain, and the sacks of fodder they have hauled from our stores!” Gareth goes on and on about Noah, his voice filled with awe.

“They’re feeding so many, and not just goats and cattle! I think I saw a couple of wildebeest basking in the shade of the ship, and camels, and horses.

I saw parrots, and doves, and owls, and some pretty pigeons and finches, in cages on their carts when Ham and his older brother came by to purchase all the rest of our seeds. They have enough to fill all the fields in the valley with wheat and grains—enough to feed their own village!

Later as I was getting ready for bed I heard my name. “Naomi, Naomi,” I heard Gareth calling to me from outside my window. He came rushing into my room, breathless and exuberant. He came from the village with a skin of wine

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