a walk in Eden

Ideas from Searching For God Knows What, Chapter

I've often wondered about the concept of being made in His image, and how God can love us, little human beings, so much. Guided by Donald Miller as I read through chapter..., I imagined God and Adam walking around together talking, and I saw it. I saw God walking around with this little human He made and realized how much He would love on him and smile at him and want to squeeze him. How He would lean over Him just to be nearer. I thought about how much I love my nine year old boy, and how much I enjoy the time when we walk and talk and how I always want to squeeze him. I want to be near him and I want a relationship with him, and I didn't even make him. Sometimes he doesn't want to interact with me and pushes me away. I respect him because he's a person, with his own mind and unique desires. Even so, I stay near, waiting for when he changes his mind and wants to snuggle, and when he does, my resigned "okay" turns into an enthusiastic "YAY!" And I believe this is how God must feel about us. When we choose to stop being so insistently independent and want to pursue relationship with Him, He is ecstatic.

While reading Donald Miller's story about God and Adam's walk in Eden I was subconsciously visualizing my walk home with my boy each day. He is much smaller than me, and his curious attitude urges him to look up to me and ask questions about the world, trusting what I have to say.

Disclaimer: I am in no way trying to claim that I am like God or make myself my little boy's god; this is merely an image I used for myself to comprehend what went down in God and Adams relationship. It's something that I could understand and compare to.

not quite Eden, just two gals walking