(Garden of Eden, By Lucas Cranach)
The one thing I truly enjoyed about all of these
stories is that they all had similar common themes such as trust and birth.
This is most evident with the story the unit
begins with and I believe sets the tone. The story of Adam and Eve begins with
God creating them and laying out the principles for which they were to follow.
God told them to not eat from a tree and so they obeyed, for a while. A serpent
started talking to Eve though and persuaded her to eat from the tree.
Instantly, Adam and Eve knew they were naked. God found they had disobeyed him
and punished them. Those two were to work for the rest of their lives. This
story is how many believe the earth began and I believe pushes a further question.
If you are a believer, do you trust God and why? Or are you trying to figure
out who God is? This story I like because it causes everything to be put into
question. So, to those reading this; what do you trust?
The other story that intrigued me was about
Sarah. Sarah was an older woman and in short God decided she would bear a
child. Sarah and her husband were in so much doubt that they questioned for a
while if they believed they would have a child. Again, the theme of trusts
comes into play. Well, they end up having a child and give all the glory to
God.
So, this brings up another point. What will
birth from either trusting or not trusting God? You see it will not always be
pleasant following God it seems, but He always will see you through to the end
also. Adam and Eve did not trust and this birthed their punishment. Sarah did
what God said and bore a son. So, the reason I say all of this is because I
believe these two stories in this half of the unit showed the greatest dynamic
of both the good and the bad that can come from following God.
Ben, this is super: I am glad you had time to do this part today. Now you can either finish up the Bible Women unit (there's some great stuff in the second half (the story of Susannah and Daniel is one of my personal favorites!)... OR you can do a storytelling for this week based on what you read about in the first part of the Bible Women unit.
ReplyDeleteAND you already have your extra reading done for at the end of the week!
This may sound too totally weird... but you could even do a mash-up where Alice wanders, not into Wonderland, but into the Garden of Eden and meets Eve! Weird, but definitely a storytelling possibility there...
Anyway, thanks for getting this figured out, and this was a perfect way to use the grace period this morning!