The Beginning, Beginner, Do Over God
In The Beginning GOD Created ... Genesis 1:1a Strange Feeling: It feels kind of odd, after being gone so long from this blog, to pick up with the first verse of the Bible; however, as I think about where to start over, I feel led to start ... well ... at the beginning. These five words of Genesis 1:1 comfort me. They comfort me because, no matter what happens in life, God is always there ready to help us do what He did at the first, and that is "begin." And, as He began, He created. He created the cosmos, and He even created the way for our ancestral parents to live a complete happy life. If you are reading this, you know how the story goes: They wanted to live independent of God, and eventually lost the life of paradise. They also started experiencing the first stress related maladies. They became aware of being naked, highly anxious, and panic attack ridden afraid. Why? Because the very thing the True and Living God had warned them about happened. They died...