Our Intimate Creator

FOR MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1st. Genesis 2:4-9 Everyone of us... every one from the babies that fill our nursery all the way to Ben Tatum (because I think he has the earliest birthday) need to be reminded that God made us. We need someone to hold us close and breathe on us and say, God breathed life into Adam. Soon enough, tomorrow's reading in fact will remind us of Adam and Eve's fall. Soon enough we will need hope. But tonight we are reminded of what we hope for... reunion with our intimate Creator. And this sets our Creator God above all others. He is so big, so powerful, so far above us that he could speak the universe into existence. Yet, he knelt down in the clay and formed the human. Then with divine affection he breathed life into us. Yes us. For that divine spark of life passes in unbroken succession from parent to child, from the first couple to us. This Advent we begin by reminding ourselves that God has desired to be close to us all along. This story tells us about the very first time God came to Earth. May he always be welcome among us!