I22 - The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: I22 - Economy: Climate Change
Write what you know: A character you dislike – what might you have in common
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Probably blasphemous
Characters: God
Pairings: None
Title: The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away
Summary: Children will be children

The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Job 1: 22

God lifted up an island from beneath the waves, as a gift for the children, to live at last in peace and harmony. And God and the children thought that this was good.

But children will be children – and love, sometimes, turns out to be conditional. So when the children grew (as children must), and tested the boundaries (as children do), and said ‘no’ (as children will), God was minded to reconsider the gift.

And God broke the world, which sent the wave – and the cries of the righteous and unrighteous alike were drowned out by its vengefulness and fury.

Comments

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

LOVE this!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

A matter of great sadness--but such is the truth of our nature that we do become rebellious and so lose much that we ought to have treasured always.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Amen! : )

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

But children will be children – and love, sometimes, turns out to be conditional.
I just love this analogy, and find it quite telling.

Awesome work.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, very much.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Ooooof! Powerful.

- Erulisse (one L)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you.