Author: MFM Kubwa
Melchizedek Bringing Bread and Wine to the Valley
The messenger came running through the hills to Hebron, to the plain of Mamre where Abram lived among the oaks. He brought word that the eastern kings had swept down through the valley of the Jordan and defeated the armies of the plain. They had taken everything. The goods. The food. The people. And among…
Lot Choosing the Green Valley Toward Sodom
The land could bear only one of them. The flocks of Abram and the flocks of Lot had grown too large, and the herdsmen were fighting at the wells and the grazing grounds. The Canaanite and the Perizzite still lived in the land, watching these strangers argue over water and grass, and Abram knew that…
The Famine That Drove Abram to Egypt
Abram stood at the edge of his camp and looked out over the land that the Lord had promised him, and the land was dry. The grass had turned brown and brittle. The flocks were growing thin. The water in the wadis had shrunk to mud, and the mud was cracking in the sun. A…
Abram Walking Out of Ur Without Looking Back
The voice came to him in Ur of the Chaldees, a city of baked brick and narrow streets and a great temple tower that rose toward the sky. He was seventy-five years old, a man with flocks and herds and servants and a wife named Sarai who had borne him no children. His father Terah…
Bricks Baking Under the Sun at Babel
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. When a man opened his mouth, the words that came out were understood by everyone who heard them. There was no translation, no confusion, no barrier between what one heart wanted to say and what another ear could receive. The world had been washed…
Noah Uncovered Under the Tent
The earth was dry again, and the old man had become a farmer. The ark had emptied out its living cargo onto the slopes of Ararat, and the animals had scattered across the face of the earth, and the eight souls who had ridden out the flood had stepped onto solid ground and smelled the…
The Raven That Never Returned
The rain had stopped. Forty days and forty nights of water hammering the roof of the ark, and then silence. The old man stood in the darkness of the wooden vessel and listened to the quiet, and the quiet was almost as strange as the storm had been. The waters had covered the earth for…
The Closing of the Ark Door
The Closing of the Ark Door The day came, and the Lord spoke to the old man one final time before the sky broke open. The ark was finished. It had taken more than a hundred years to build, every plank and beam and peg cut and fitted by his own hands and the hands…
The Sons of God Looking at the Daughters of Men
The men began to multiply on the face of the earth. Daughters were born to them, and the daughters grew up with dark hair and bright eyes, and they walked through the settlements and the young cities, and they caught the attention of eyes that were not human. No one knows exactly who the sons…
Enoch Walking into the Silence
The boy was born when his father was sixty-five years old, and they named him Enoch. His father was Jared, a man who lived among the first generations of people on the earth, when the years stretched long and a man could watch his children have children and still walk the same fields he walked…
