So behind...

It has been so long that I have written. Work and life just catch up with me. I am slightly stressed all the time. I just want to relax and have fun. Doesn't seem to be much time for that even! I have been reading my book though. Not as faithfully as I should. I have been considering just giving up the idea all together. However, that would not be healthy for me spiritually. I guess the best I can do is enough for now and I will try to do better each time. The whole point of this is to create some type of healthy habit and see how I read effects/affects me and my daily life.

I don't remember where I left off. I am thinking it was at the origin of sin or why sin was permitted. Something along those lines. The very beginning...go figure. Well, I guess the next step is the creation.

Awhile back I had a friend who I spent a lot of time with. Up in Northern CA a fellow travel therapist and I would go on hikes and multiple adventures see all that N. CA had to offer. It was beautiful.. He is a Unitarian. For some reason I cannot fully comprehend his religion. Please, do not think I am at all judging or saying it's a bad religion. I am just not able to understand. It was like specific beliefs based around ambiguity. It was like saying there was something...but not really believing in it. He was very sceptical about a lot of things, and the Bible was only a book of stories to learn from. Like Moby Dick, or some other great classic.

Anyhow, he laughed while I talked about the creation to him.

"Awww Sara, you believe that stuff?!" It was the first time I had been outright challenged about my beliefs. I mean...Ya, I believe it. To sit there and explain why is a whole completely different story. As I stuttered and tried to explain something I have just stepped out in faith to believe, I realized...maybe I should ask the questions!

I retorted with a "Well, what do you believe.?" He came back with some answer how maybe a 'higher' being spoke evolution into existence. It was an interesting theory...
"So you're telling me...that an all powerful 'thing'...spoke evolution into existence? Like he didn't even think of us? However we came out is how He wanted us to be? It didn't matter if we were all ugly and hairy like apes? HE would let us start out in a degrading position of a mere animal and then upgrade to sinful human? WOW!

Now I believe in natural selection. God did not start that though. That was sin, however I do think that God planned for animals and people alike to adapt and change as to handle the harsh sinful environments we live in.

Falcons now dive from sky scrapers. Finches beaks narrow or get wide depending on food availability. Slow prey animals are weeded out and those with the faster genes create even faster offspring. It all makes sense that way. However, let me be a fool for God and say...

I love the fact that God created man. That He took the time to think about us, and make us in his own image? Did you know that no other created being is His image? It's just you and me?! How valuable do you feel now? How can you NOT get so excited! This is even before His plan of salvation! We were the favorite of heaven with angels AND God visiting. All the time!

How AWESOME it must have been to walk physically and spiritually next to God Himself?! Ellen White says that all of Heaven was delighted with the new earth! Clear fresh air. Delicate details! It is so interesting how she also says we try to exclude God from everything here.

If we were to go the the God spoke evolution into existence than it makes us so distant from him that the theory of God cannot even be true.

I am thankful for a God who created me in His image. I am so happy everyday to have a life that God blessed me to have! Even though the earth around me is far from what He intended it to be, I am grateful that the remnants of his creation still exist all around me.