The “Garden of Eden”, where the change in my life began and possibly where it ends. Dramatic isn’t it? The Garden of Eden, sounds so biblical and you are probably thinking that I’m one of those people that have total faith in God and everything he does. Well, I wish that was true, but keep reading and you will probably realize the opposite.
The first day that I happened upon a prayer garden, the only thought that came to my mind was that this must have been what the Garden of Eden looked like. From the beginning, this prayer garden gave me a piece of mind. Because of this peace, I visited as often as possible. Believe it or not, the reason this blog was created was due to my thinking that this place was my “Garden of Eden”. My view of an incident at this place will either makes me the biggest fool around or proves in my mind that God’s word is true. Up to this point, over a year into my walk in faith, it looks more like I’m a fool.
It’s hard to even start explaining why “the incident” caused such a change in my life. Maybe it was because of the desperation in my life and I was just searching for anything to keep me going. Maybe it was just an ordinary event that I completely blew out of proportion. Or just maybe, this is what God had planned for me over a lifetime of being such a knucklehead in life.
“The incident” that changed my life occurred after about a year of visiting this place. It occurred when I was leaving the Garden and returning to my car. Upon leaving, there was a snake blocking my exit.
There was this small black snake in front of me. It wasn’t big, scary, or dangerous but rather small and it was just blocking my path. What was strange about the snake was how it was moving. The snake was trying to crawl, slither or to be honest I couldn’t tell what it was doing. It definitely was struggling to move and it looked like it had been injured or crushed. It is hard to explain the way this snake was moving as I have never seen a snake move that way. Instead of just sliding across the ground, it would lift its head of the floor and than would just flop it back down. The flopping motion only caused it to move a couple inches from the last place it was at. It just kept lifting its head up and flopping it back down. At first, I thought the snake was dying and I was just standing there watching this struggle. It’s crazy but all of a sudden, some terrifying sensation came over me. I don’t even know how to explain it, but I was scared but not scared at the same time. Crazy, but this feeling left as soon as the snake made it across the path and disappeared. As soon as the snake left, the sensation was gone and everything felt fine. After a few moments, I was once again trying to leave when there was something else blocking my path. This time it was a dove that was in front of my exit. Look, I’m not one of those people who believe in stuff like that, but let me tell something hit me. I swear, there was a feeling that something terrible was going to happen. It felt as if everything in my life was going to change and that this would be the hardest period of my life. In my opinion, the snake represented the hard period that would be coming.
But there was also a feeling that everything would be fine at the end of this period. I swear, it felt like that I would lose everything that was important to me. That this period would be the hardest part of my life, and than at the end everything would be fine. Honestly, I’m not the type of person that feels that everything for a reason. But I swear, from some reason I knew something bad was going to happen. A few days later, everything in my life would change and the beginning of loosing everything in my life began. The snake, dove and the place that I always called “My garden of Eden”, the place where Eve changed our lives .. would be the starting point of my walk in faith.
Sounds dramatic huh……
Well, everything that I have done in my life since that happened has been due to that story. That either makes me the dumbest person in history, or proves that God word is true. I once heard someone say that if you don’t believe God’s word to be true than put it to the test.
So here we go and this is my attempt to put God’s word to the test. And if anyone ever sees that dove please let me know because I haven’t seen that bird in a long time.
The first day that I happened upon a prayer garden, the only thought that came to my mind was that this must have been what the Garden of Eden looked like. From the beginning, this prayer garden gave me a piece of mind. Because of this peace, I visited as often as possible. Believe it or not, the reason this blog was created was due to my thinking that this place was my “Garden of Eden”. My view of an incident at this place will either makes me the biggest fool around or proves in my mind that God’s word is true. Up to this point, over a year into my walk in faith, it looks more like I’m a fool.
It’s hard to even start explaining why “the incident” caused such a change in my life. Maybe it was because of the desperation in my life and I was just searching for anything to keep me going. Maybe it was just an ordinary event that I completely blew out of proportion. Or just maybe, this is what God had planned for me over a lifetime of being such a knucklehead in life.
“The incident” that changed my life occurred after about a year of visiting this place. It occurred when I was leaving the Garden and returning to my car. Upon leaving, there was a snake blocking my exit.
There was this small black snake in front of me. It wasn’t big, scary, or dangerous but rather small and it was just blocking my path. What was strange about the snake was how it was moving. The snake was trying to crawl, slither or to be honest I couldn’t tell what it was doing. It definitely was struggling to move and it looked like it had been injured or crushed. It is hard to explain the way this snake was moving as I have never seen a snake move that way. Instead of just sliding across the ground, it would lift its head of the floor and than would just flop it back down. The flopping motion only caused it to move a couple inches from the last place it was at. It just kept lifting its head up and flopping it back down. At first, I thought the snake was dying and I was just standing there watching this struggle. It’s crazy but all of a sudden, some terrifying sensation came over me. I don’t even know how to explain it, but I was scared but not scared at the same time. Crazy, but this feeling left as soon as the snake made it across the path and disappeared. As soon as the snake left, the sensation was gone and everything felt fine. After a few moments, I was once again trying to leave when there was something else blocking my path. This time it was a dove that was in front of my exit. Look, I’m not one of those people who believe in stuff like that, but let me tell something hit me. I swear, there was a feeling that something terrible was going to happen. It felt as if everything in my life was going to change and that this would be the hardest period of my life. In my opinion, the snake represented the hard period that would be coming.
But there was also a feeling that everything would be fine at the end of this period. I swear, it felt like that I would lose everything that was important to me. That this period would be the hardest part of my life, and than at the end everything would be fine. Honestly, I’m not the type of person that feels that everything for a reason. But I swear, from some reason I knew something bad was going to happen. A few days later, everything in my life would change and the beginning of loosing everything in my life began. The snake, dove and the place that I always called “My garden of Eden”, the place where Eve changed our lives .. would be the starting point of my walk in faith.
Sounds dramatic huh……
Well, everything that I have done in my life since that happened has been due to that story. That either makes me the dumbest person in history, or proves that God word is true. I once heard someone say that if you don’t believe God’s word to be true than put it to the test.
So here we go and this is my attempt to put God’s word to the test. And if anyone ever sees that dove please let me know because I haven’t seen that bird in a long time.
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