[Read Revelation 21:1-7]

In the beginning when God began to create, God hovered over the waters of chaos. God placed the dome of the sky over the earth to keep the waters at bay and gathered the waters under the dome together to make seas and for the dry land to appear. Although there are plenty of places in scripture where water is good and   life giving there is always this threat in the background with the waters of chaos. I guess that is appropriate for our lives as we have plenty of good things to celebrate but there is always that doubt, that fear, that something could come and destroy our happiness. We worry about money, children, careers, our health, and death.

In the story of Noah, God opened the windows in the sky dome and let the waters of chaos in to flood the earth and wash it o…