Today's reading is BOTH creation stories! (Did you know there were two different creation stories? One in Genesis 1 and the other at the start of Genesis 2.) Page 52 describes the differences... Genesis 1 describes man as the pinnacle of a creation pyramid while Genesis 2 describes man as the center of a sort of circle of life.
We're still focusing on the topic of meditation on the scriptures, but today we introduce a different twist. Today we use the scripture passage as the basis for some time with our imagination. We're to find a quite spot, read the passage, and then imagine we're with God as he creates the world... or maybe we imagine we're walking with God in the garden of Eden.
Try it...
Imagine being with God in the garden...
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From the grey section on p.53... "God has an amazing imagination! With no designs to mimic and no models to copy, God imagines and speaks into being the trees, birds, and living persons. God creates the sounds of ocean waves, wind through the leaves, and voices singing praise. God writes the stories of our life. God is, indeed, a sculptor, composer, and author. As the Creator of all things, our Maker is the originator of creativity!"
So spend some time studying, meditating, and imagining being with God in the creation story.
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