A Covenant

I went to Niagara Falls for a day trip and saw this as a nice end for the day on the way back to Ithaca. Through the bus window and through the drizzling sky, a sweet faint bow. As feminine and as vulnerable as it looks, it arches wide across the land as if protecting everything underneath. And even if there's no gold pot on its feet, itself is a treasure; a smile from up above.

I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth."

God added: "This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you:

I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds,

I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings.

As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings--all mortal creatures that are on earth."

God told Noah: "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all mortal creatures that are on earth.

Genesis 9:11-14