I'm sitting here contemplating how LOVE becomes so complicated. In the beginning God wanted to share all the amazing things He made so much He created Himself a companion, a man called Adam. He gave Adam the power to call everything he made whatever he wanted; a giraffe, a kangaroo, whatever he called it God called it. He put Adam in the God class by giving him a free will and eternal life, and the power to create with His words. He did not, however, make Adam part of the Godhead (Tri-unity/Trinity), he was fallible, and because he was human and not God he was subject to temptation and emotion in a way God never was. God realized that it wasn't good for him to be the lone human on the earth, so he created a human companion that could be his friend, and so that he could pro-create and replenish the earth, God created Eve.

God knew He had everything under control, and as long as Adam and Eve held onto that fact and spoke what He said when He created everything He created with His words and said it was good, then it would be. He also knew if they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of God and Evil, they would begin to see things differently. There would no longer be an ultimate good or learning and growth process from all things, but things would be categorized as good or bad, and thus embraced or rejected as a whole. Sadly, Adam ate from the Tree, and then convinced Eve to also, they do say, "misery loves company". At that they were both beguiled to see things from a new paradigm as good or bad, and so death entered in which made it hard to reverse bad things or gain anything from them, or even learn to be thankful for God's sustaining through them because the focus was shifted from Him to how bad things were. That was why He didn't want them to eat from that blasted tree!!!

I must admit that I fell victim to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil a few years ago. About the time the economy took a downturn, I was let go from a job I'd been at for several years, then my partner went through a couple layoffs, but then went back to work, but it was hard for a while. We lost our house after living in it ten years, and our vehicle. I flipped out, I got depressed, I forgot God was in control. Worse yet I stop listening like I should have to her. OMG!!! This woman I adore, I prayed for, and I stopped hearing her and God.

You know Jesus came to walk here in human form to understand what we go through, to take all the crap daily; pain, rejection, jealousy, fear, sickness, hunger, need, want, temptation, etc. The only difference was He didn't forget God was in control, in fact He surrendered to His control totally, even to the point that He let men who were afraid of His power, put Him to death, not knowing that He did it willingly to restore them to the position they had in the Garden before Adam ate from that damn tree! He wants to forgive us for our foolishness in looking at life through the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and get back to looking at everything and everyone He made and say like He did, "It's good!", and of the people he made, He said they were, "very good!" Sadly not everyone looks at themselves as good, because they have been told too much or too long they are not, so they begin to act out what they've been told and think is expected of them. I hope we can change that, God so wants us to. It's time to LOVE each other, to be restorers of the breach. That term is for people who have had a breach with a friend, their family, God or even themselves. Something has been broken that needs to be repaired. Only LOVE can do that.

I want to finish this year with LOVE. I want to be restored to the woman I LOVE and my family. I also want to help others be restored that feel broken within themselves or with someone they love. I've learned so much in my journey these last few years, and have decided to chop down that tree, and only eat from the Tree of Life and speak Life and LOVE. LOVE ALWAYS WINS!!!