Posted by
ne on Friday, January 05, 2007 12:29:46 AM
This past week I have not been able to sleep or eat until
today! Thank God! Yeah, sure some days I was able to sleep but when I am in a
new place I find it hard to sleep or eat.
I don’t know what it is…new surroundings?? maybe…maybe it’s the change. I do like change, I like to be spontaneous, but
it always takes me a while to get used to the change. When I am on vacation, I am so excited. I am
like a little kid in a candy store. I
just want to stay up and process all of the scents and smells of the environment. I like to take pictures in my mind, and hold
on to these pictures for years to come. I’m
sure the people that I was staying with this past week thought I was quite
strange with my eating and sleeping habits, but sometimes it’s just hard for me
to adjust. The adjustment wasn’t bad, I
was just over stimulated. Usually, when
this happens I am completely exhausted, however, this time it gave me strength.
More often that not, I get strength from the mountains. About four years ago I had a dream that I
would be working a huge project in the mountains; maybe someday this will be
true for me.
For those who don’t know me… Last week I had the privilege
to stay in Colorado Springs. I don’t know what it is about the mountains,
the air, the wildlife, wildflowers, but it has a feeling of home. For one week,
I got to experience a dream, residing in the mountains for a few days.
Upon endless cups of coffee, I sat in a living room and
ponder on a few thoughts…I thought about Adam and Eve and there time in the
Garden, I thought about the beginning of time.
Maybe these thoughts came about because I sat in a living room full of
house plants and it reminded me of the Garden of Eden. Being in the mountains and in this particular
living room I realized that Garden was much lager than I had thought. Before this moment, I always had pictured a
man and women living in a small cottage wearing leaves. I thought about Eve and what she looked like
when Adam first saw her. Before this
moment, I always thought he was like.. “Hey women, thanks a lot for taking one
of my ribs… Gosh.” Then I thought about
it a little longer, and you know Adam and Eve didn’t meet right away. God knew that Adam was lonely, but He didn’t
create her upon that first feeling. This
gave me hope, because God create me like Adam, and he was lonely, wanted a
friend, a BFF, but God waited. He told
Adam to name the animals. This must have
been easy right? Naming some animals right? Sure, that is what I had always
thought, but when you really thinking about it… there were a lot of animals to
name, several in fact, probably millions. Then Adam sleeps and God takes one of
his ribs and make him a helpmate.
Interesting…the entire time that Adam was naming the animals he was
alone. I wonder if Adam’s and God
relationship changed after He created Eve.
I wonder what Adam was really thinking the first time he meet Eve? What did she look like? What did she smell like? What was Eve thinking when she meet Adam? And because of all of this, it helped me to
understand love. If God is love, than
what is love? How can someone be “in
love”? These are a few thoughts that I
ponder over this week. I am very
thankful that I was able to spend a week in the mountains, there are many more
stories and ideas that I came across this past week and I look forward to be
sharing them with you. Until then…