October 19

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the Ark.

I AM the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life, He said. It was all real, concrete, alive, because He was—because He is—real, concrete, and alive. So He was to redeem me and all the world by dwelling in me and all the world, uniting and conjoining us, and bringing us in Him to God. It was all real, “Christ for us is Christ in us.” I lost my pilgrim’s burden, not, like Christian, at the foot of a lonely cross, but before the crib where the shepherds and wise men met together and the beasts were stabled; and from whence all men and beasts go forth to bear that cross with Him who bore it for the sake of all.

WILLIAM SCOTT PALMER

AND THE ARK