At the very beginning of the story — before Cain discovered the fast lane — is a memory of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the evening.
From the beginnings of the Bible to the end, the advance in the idea of God was extreme: Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, worshiping one universal Father; beginning with a god who
walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.»
God, at the beginning of the Bible,
walking in a garden in the cool of the day, making a woman from a man's rib, confounding men's speech lest they build a tower too high, trying to slay a man at a wayside inn because his child was not circumcised, or dwelling on Mt. Sinai, where he says to Moses, «You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen,» is a very different deity from the one you find at the Bible's end, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.»
Beginning with a god who
walked in a garden in the cool of the day or who showed his back to Moses as a special favor, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time» (John 1:18.)
8They heard the sound of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.»
Not exact matches
The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun - dials and brick
walks and burning
gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side
in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
Not only has
gardening positively, even profoundly, impacted the lives of employees who have participated
in it, but it has encouraged employees to
walk the talk at companies whose brand encompasses some aspect of wellness — thereby bolstering company morale and integrity.
Other design elements include new
walking paths
in the arch's shadow and a 7.5 - acre
garden and amphitheater that replace a parking deck on the north end of the park.
Take a
walk around your neighborhood and chat to people who happen to be outside their houses
in their
gardens or on their driveways and ask them if they currently hire a cleaner and let them know that you are available.
Religion became a killer and divider; rather than something that restored a simple
walk in the
Garden with the Maker.
According to the natural law tradition, a right is a spiritual entitlement, a moral power to do (e.g., to
walk in one's
garden), hold (e.g., to keep a family heirloom), or exact something (e.g., to demand the payment of a debt).
I
walked n the Sinai, I sat
in the
garden of Gesthemany, I ended up being baptized
in the sea of Galilee.
Reflecting on key biblical passages, the Pope began by wondering what it meant to Adam,
walking in the
garden, to discover that he was alone as an embodied self.
This is why I spend my time critiquing power and authority, especially religious: because it compromises the most historic element of our story... that moment
in time when we crossed over from freely
walking in the
garden with God to working on hard ground with thorns and a curse.
Just look at how God's character has changed since he was «
walking in the
Garden».
How is he any less anthropomorphic than Thor then when he is so emotional and even «
walks»
in his
garden?
With the Bible, we begin to grasp who our original forefather is (Adam), and his rebellion
in a
garden that set off a chain reaction (Gen 3:1 - 6), causing all his offspring to receive imperfection from him, and thus from the cradle we
walk on the road to the grave.
We have
walked the short space from the back porch to her late August
garden, tomatoes too ripe, yellow - green peppers
in threes bursting through the dry.
When we love Jesus, when we are free, when we are
walking with, then we are a sign and a foretaste of how it was meant to be
in the
Garden, perhaps, God's way of living overflowing organically: the disciple, the friend, the daughter, the heir, the beloved.
Our skin is made of dust and we often catch the perfumed scent of the
Garden in the cool of the evening, and we know, somewhere inside, we're supposed to be
walking with God, unashamed still.
And we are the new creations, and His cruciform sacrifice forms a new heaven and a new earth and new ways, and
in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to
walk in the
garden, not
in the cool of the evening, but
in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Women.
Wrestling matches,
walks in a
garden — wonder why He doesn't come visit us given that he has time to wrestle.
A visitor
walking its shaded streets a few decades ago would have encountered eucalyptus trees, oleander shrubs and neat
gardens, with church bells chiming
in the background.
I offer that Adam was created
in the
Garden to
walk with God
in the cool of the evening.
In the Western religious marketplace comprising «church» stalls, we have goods on display for all tastes except those who've seen through the spiritual capitalism and left the marketplace to walk in the bounty of God's restored Garde
In the Western religious marketplace comprising «church» stalls, we have goods on display for all tastes except those who've seen through the spiritual capitalism and left the marketplace to
walk in the bounty of God's restored Garde
in the bounty of God's restored
Garden.
I was back
in an area of the beer
garden that was hard to reach, so one guy got up and just
walked across the top of the tables so he could come greet me.
From the beginning
in the
garden The Lord God
walked with man (Gen 3:8), he taught Adam his first job (Gen 2:15) and these things were done
in the flesh (they are physical).
On the previous day, President Trump had announced
in the Rose
Garden that the United States was
walking away from the Paris Accord on Climate Change.
That we would
walk with Him without separation like they did
in the
garden.
There is time for quiet chatting, enjoying music or a
walk in the
gardens.
By simply inwardly
Walking into a
Garden and Looking up at the «Sun», which the Trigger to enter into God's Light is Perfect Love and Peace and can be accompanied by Telepathy if
in need.
At this point God, though on a throne
in heaven and outside of time and nonexistent
in a physical body, was somehow
walking in the
garden and called for his two people creations.
Just as Adam and Eve
walked around with nothing to hide
in the perfection of the
Garden, we were created to be fully known and loved.
God came down and
walked in the
garden and talked with the guilty pair; he accepted Abraham's hospitality one afternoon as he journeyed across the Judean hills; he informed Noah of the coming flood, and, when the latter had obeyed the divine warning and gone into the ark, he shut the door.
Our skin carries the mark of dust and we often catch a whiff, maybe the perfumed scent, of the
Garden in the cool of the evening, and we know, somewhere inside, we're supposed to be
walking with God, unashamed.
Sir Alfred Zimmern,
in my day one of our leading experts
in international affairs, was one day
walking in the
gardens of Oxford University with a friend who asked him, «What,
in your opinion, is the greatest obstacle between us and the building of enduring world peace?»
When God
walked in the
Garden with Adam I don't think he left footprints.
After some days the pious man saw his dead companion
walking in the
garden of paradise beside fountains of water; and he saw Bar Ma «yon the tax collector lying on the bank of a river, he was striving to reach the water and he could not.
Instead when we love God, when we are free, when we are
walking with, then we are a sign and a foretaste of how it was meant to be
in the
Garden, perhaps, God's way of living overflowing organically: the disciple, the friend, the daughter, the son, the brother, the heir, the beloved.
Immediately after clothing themselves, reports the biblical author (3:8), «they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the
Garden,» the first explicit mention that any human being really attended to or even noticed the divine presence.
Homely fields
in Green Pastures, the «heavenly city», «being with those I love», «
gardens and stately
walks»
in the Elizabethan lyric — all these were symbolic and suggestive of fulfillment.
Have a
walk with the creator
in the
garden of life.
How did people do that when God
walked in the
garden with the first man Adam?
Everything was perfect when man and God
walked about
in the
Garden of Eden.
We also learned that there is a
garden event
in June, when you can go to the
gardens to have a picnic and even
walk around
in the main building that dates from the 15th century.
I was reminded of being
in Mola di Bari and
walking through the
garden of our hostess and picking the fava and eating them raw.
I've just
walked out to my
garden and picked a handful of brussel sprouts
in order to try this recipe.
it was like —
walking in a beautiful
garden, full of childhood memories...
But really Uncle Patterson was a lovely older man who just missed his grandkids and so whenever my mum, sister and I would
walk past after school and he was
in his
garden he'd invite us into his house.
When I visited SF a few years ago, we
walked up to Coit Tower via the Greenwich Steps and then back down the Filbert Steps - those
gardens blew me away, they were so lush and beautiful - what a gorgeous thing to have
in the middle of a modern city...