Wrote this one thinking about Genesis 6:6-8 (title hits Romans 8:19):
Yahweh regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So Yahweh said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
It’s more poetic perhaps than “theological.” But I love how Yahweh is truly a character in the Bible, not (as Dallas Willard would say) “the great unblinking cosmic stare.” And the thought of his heart being deeply troubled moves me.
