IN THE BEGINNING...

In The Beginning. The Beginning of all Beginnings!--Everything was fresh and brand new! God spoke a Word, and the World came to be! God breathed, and New Life had begun! God created a Perfect World. A Garden! A Garden SO BEAUTIFUL that you could not even BEGIN to imagine in your wildest of dreams! A Garden~~in one little corner of God's new Wide Universe! And in the Garden, there were beautiful trees, with hundreds of varieties of fruits~~Fruits so delectable, that you have never imagined anything so delicious!

And God breathed, and there was a Man. And then from Man, a Woman.

In The Beginning. The Beginning of All Things Wild and Wonderful and Beautiful and Bright as the Morning Star!

But the World God created, In The Begininning, is unknown to us now. It is no longer so beautiful.

WHAT HAPPENED? (You will not be sorry you asked!)

God gave Man and Woman a choice. God let them CHOOSE while they were in this Fabulous Garden! This Wonderful Masterful Garden in the corner of the Universe. He gave them a wild and dangerous and thing called "FREE WILL" that allowed Man and Woman to decide. He gave them a CHOICE.

You see, they were DECEIVED! They were deceived by the Evil One, who told them they ate from a Tree~One Tree in the Beautiful Garden--that Marvelous Tree~~the ONE TREE that GOD told them NOT to eat from...They could eat from EVERY OTHER DELECTABLE FRUIT TREE IN THE GARDEN! Except for one. If they CHOSE to eat from the Fruit of This Tree in the Middle of the Garden, they would Surely DIE! GOD told them this Himself! They were DECEIVED into thinking that IF they ate from This Tree in the Middle of the Garden, they would have ALL KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL, of RIGHT and WRONG! THEY WOULD BE LIKE GOD!!! ALL-KNOWING!

And So They Did! Why is it that we ALWAYS want to do the ONE thing we're not supposed to?! "Dont' you TOUCH that little toy train, Johnny! You can play with ALL the other toys in the WHOLE TOY STORE, but Do Not Touch That Train! And so he does!

The Woman ate from the Tree, and she even gave some Fruit from this Tree to the Man she was made to HELP! And they were ashamed.

And WHO do you think SAW THEM?
(This is not a trick question!)

GOD came down and took a walk in the Garden. "ADAM! Where ARE you?!" "EVE?" (You KNEW their names, didn't you? I didnt HAVE to say them 'til now!) "WHAT DID YOU DO?"
(As if He didnt know...!) "Did You eat fromThe Tree? The One in the Middle of the Garden? The ONE I TOLD YOU NOT TO EAT FROM?" (BOLD TYPE over there indicate tht God was angry, by the way...)

"SHE MADE ME!" said Adam. Men always blaming their wives for everything, as usual....!

And so, with Free Will, and the eating the Fruit fo the one Forbidden Tree, God gave His Creatures the abilty to choose, and they did not choose wisely...And then began this age of Darkness and Despair that we live in today.

But this is not the end of the story! For God So Loved The World...

Is it time for a New Beginning for you? We people become restless...discontent with what we have...with what we are! The Grass Is Always Greener Mentality! So, we look for a New Beginning! And AGAIN we make bad choices! And we begin once again...and again.

BUT, If you make your New Beginnning WITH GOD...! KNOWING the Perfect Will of God Himself, KNOWING that HE CARES about us, and that He Keeps ALL His Promises (Heb. 10:23) then we can have a Wild and Wonderful and Beautiful Beginning with WITH the BRIGHT and MORNING STAR! THEN we will make the right choices, and NEVER DIE!

And there will be a New Beginning, and we will SHARE it together!

You will join me, won't you?!

Believe me, you will NOT want to miss this!

P.S. I am going to sleep now, but if you would like to know what happened next in the Story I am telling you about, then open up your Bible. YES! You heard me! That book that your Grandmother gave you for your Confirmation? IN 1972? The One in the box with all the DUST?! Yes, THAT'S the one! Open it! READ it!!! YOU WILL SEE! It's really not bad reading! I happen to know the Author personally...

Love,
Cindy