At this afternoon's Friday Gathering, I was speaking on Remembering focussing in on Genesis 9 and the rainbow.  As I read the verses aloud, I was struck by how many times God said, "this will be a reminder to me".

I was left wondering - is God's memory as rubbish as mine that this needs to be dinned into the Divine consciousness.  Or, as someone else suggested (and I have here interpretted), is it that God is so sorely tempted to zap us that this almost becomes a mantra "I will not zap, I will not zap..."