St James - Cross Roads-Cum-Lees, near Haworth

Noah's Ark - 1999
Creation - 2001
Jonah & the Whale - 1999
Approx size for each window: 18" x 48" high (460mm x 1220mm high.)
Design: R.W.C.














Jonah and The Whale



The story of Jonah is about the relationship between God and humans, a story that tells God's mercy, even for hated enemies. It is about forgiveness and repentance, about obedience and punishment for disobedience, and about God's boundless compassion and mercy. Jonah is told by God to prophesy against the people of Nineveh, but he flees to Tarshis on a ship. While Jonah sleeps, a storm rages, the pagan sailors are afraid and pray unsuccessfully to their gods. The captain wakes Jonah and asks him to call upon his God to save them. Jonah admits his responsibility for the storm and suggests they throw him overboard; when they do, the sea is calmed and they are converted to his God. God sends a fish to save Jonah by swallowing him whole, and he delivers to God a psalm of thanksgiving from the belly of the fish.


















Noah's Ark



Enraged by human wickedness, God decided to destroy all humankind but for the righteous family of Noah. He ordered Noah to build an ark which would be large enough to hold two of every animal as well as Noah's family. When the rains came, Noah, his family, and the animals paraded onto the ark and were saved as all things around them - people, plants, buildings were destroyed. The rains lasted for forty days and forty nights, after which the waters began to recede. As me ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. To discover the condition of the land Noah dispatched a dove, it returned with an olive branch, a symbol of peace which signified that the waters had receded sufficiently so that they could leave the ark. A rainbow appeared in die sky as a sign of God's acceptance of Noah's sacrifice and of a new covenant between God and the earth.























Creation



"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night."
Genesis 1 : 1-5













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