on the road to Nineveh

on the road to Nineveh

Jonah goes to Nineveh: Jonah=Us
Jonah second guesses God's will; Jonah=us

 

fiction

edward w Pritchard

 

On the road to Nineveh by a circuitous route. Three days in cramped second class quarters after being tossed into stormy seas by sailors of circumstance.

I try to obey God's orders but they don't just make sense. Nineveh; 120,000 against one. Ifs God's so powerful, commanding nature and whales and what have yous,  why does he need me to speak for him? Am I really hearing him at all?

I must look a ghastly sight. Three days digested acids in the belly of the whale of waiting. Ghostly white and hollow to espy, repentance genuine; to Nineveh.

Walk about in sackcloth waiving my arms like a madman. Hide under the vine of truth, a fine red wine, end up later nailed to the cross for three days.

Nineveh, what say you now?