Noah's Ark

 6-29-2024

I just want to inspire believers to be better, and nonbelievers to open their eyes. 

7-6-2024

Noah’s Ark

I bumped into a lady I know at the grocery store. She asked me if I still put bible tabs inside of bibles or if I knew someone in town that did. This irritated me. There is a back story to this. When I owned an art store here in Libby, Montana, people wanted everything from me except what I really did… Sell art supplies and teach classes. The week I was going to close my store forever, a guy came in and told me off for 45 minutes (I timed it). My distributor went out of business and my marriage was on the rocks. I called it quits, and here comes this guy. He schooled and scolded me on the poor selection of paints and canvases on my shelves. I just smiled at him. Everything he voiced about the materials, I already knew. But I could no longer restock my store, the dream was dead. Another lady last week called me telling me she needed me to scan in thousands of family photos and retrieve pictures she had on cds. It would be nice to have it all on dvd, set to music. My ex-wife has painting projects lined up for me. 

And then I started thinking about Noah. I feel like God is calling me to make this comic book. I wonder if when Noah was building the ark, neighbors from near by towns and villages came, seeing his work. And instead of asking why he is building a boat and getting an important message from his answer, they ask if he could build them a bench for their garden. Maybe someone asked for shelves also. Maybe someone else wanted a boat also, but not that big. Noah knows the rain is coming, and everyone needs him to spend time on things that will soon be underwater. 

Wow. I am not comparing the importance of my comic to the ark. And I feel it is important to have patience and give to others. I almost feel like  dark forces are trying to stop me, and the broken world can’t understand what I am doing. And so they want to distract me from my project. A project that is my sacrificial offering to the Lord, and my attempt at the great commission.