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'Thanks' Button Team Community Member T.K.S.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: with the Brady Bunch, honey bunch,and now the crazy bunch
Posts: 2,751
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'Thanks' Button Team Community Member T.K.S.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: with the Brady Bunch, honey bunch,and now the crazy bunch
Posts: 2,751
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I am not a Christian, but I love this part of the story of Jonas:
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Chapter 4
4:1 But Jonas was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded. 2 And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil. 3 And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved?
5 And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city. 6 And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
7 And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away. 8 And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.
10 And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night: 11 and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?
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(I deleted this before I posted but have decided to add it back in: I've always thought the "whale" was something symbolic. For me, it was "depression"; it is so big that it engulfed Jonas. I know this is amateurish on my part and I totally understand that there will be many folks that will sneer at my even suggesting that. And that is OK. It works for ME.)
Last edited by who moi; 05-20-2008 at 12:44 AM.
Reason: added my edit
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