The Circuit

03/01/2024

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02/23/2024

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01/23/2024

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01/19/2024

This child has more emotional intelligence than most adults. Great parenting!!
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01/05/2024

Part 2

The Garden of Eden “had all desirable conveniences…Beautiful for situation, the joy and the glory of the whole earth, was this garden: doubtless it was earth in its highest perfection” (Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary 3.13).

According to scripture the Garden of Eden had 4 rivers running through it. It had lush trees and fruit and animals and gemstones. It was home to Adam and Eve who lived in perfect communion with each other and with God. They were innocent, and unashamed. Intimacy in the purest of ways both in their relationship to God and each other. A picture of marriage and provision and beauty and union.

I started this story yesterday with Part 1 discussing the deception of Eve. Today I remind us of the cost of that deception. This same garden became the place that sin entered the world.

Most of us have read the consequences that came as a result of sin. In Genesis 3 we read that God was walking in the garden and called out to Adam. He and Eve were hiding and God asked why. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and all of mankind suffered.
We read more specific ways in the rest of the 3rd chapter of Genesis.

I want to point out the greatest of all losses. In my opinion the saddest of all Bible stories. It wasn’t that Eve would have to endure great pain in childbirth or that Adam would have to work hard to provide for his family.

It is that the intimacy they had with God and each other was lost. It is that they hid in shame. I’m not sure that I have words to adequately express what my heart feels.

Imagine such communion being instantly changed from innoncence to shame. Imagine going from Gen 2:25 where it says “The man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame.” To Gen 3:10 where Adam says ”I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked ; so I hid”.

God provided every basic human need in the garden. Food, water, shelter, purpose, and connection and intimacy with him and between Adam and Eve.

The loss of intimacy, safety, and connection is still the greatest loss. We hide from God and we hide from each other. Not because we don’t want to experience this intimacy but because we are naked and ashamed. And it’s safer and easier to hide than to be vulnerable.

Thankfully there is more to the story….

12/30/2023

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11/11/2022

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01/08/2021

The winter is cold and the days are short. We are still in a pandemic and our country is divided. We are living in times like no other in our nations history.

Can anything good come out of this?
It depends on where you look. In the Bible Jonah was afraid to go to Nineveh and ran from God when God asked him to go to the people there. Jonah could not see anything good coming from Nineveh. But God could.

Philip ran to tell Nathaniel of the birth of Jesus and Nathaniel’s response was “can anything good come out of Nazareth?” He could not see it. Nazareth, the most disregarded valley of a despised province of a conquered land. But God could.

It is not the time to fall into despair and forget that God can bring good out of places that we can’t see it. We can all trust and believe this. He is still God. He purposes will prevail. His love is unconditional for the left and the right and the war has already been won.

We can participate in bringing the good to the forefront through prayer and a decision to not use our words to curse and bring harm to others. Let’s be light. Let’s speak truth in love. Let’s be the good that’s hard to find right now in our nation.

I hate the winter. But I have to admit the beauty in this photo cannot be denied. I often close my eyes to the good in winter but this photographer could see it.

Open your eyes! There is still good all around us!

“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭27:13-14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Photo credit: Samuel Lethier Photography