Genesis 2 and 3 - Where are You?

Genesis 2-3 Selected verses - Where are you?

Turn to someone sitting near by you and ask:
Where is God? Answers?

How many times in this past week did you wonder: Where is God? What were the circumstances? Of course, this question presumes that God exists. That there is something behind and within all that is.  It bears some inkling that God is out there somewhere; from beyond ourselves we have been given our life and meaning. But when circumstances in life lead us to wonder: what is our purpose? What are we here for? We may wonder: Where is God?

And when there is no confirmation or satisfactory answer to this question: Where is God? It may be easy to take a second step, which is to dismiss the notion of God's existence all together. "Where is God" becomes "There is no God," or maybe less overtly, "we all alone spinning around on this third rock from the sun."  And once that notion becomes our most prevalent thought...
Oh, it’s on.  Let the rat race begin.

Throughout human history, once humans had any kind of language--”that vast symbol system in which sounds in the air stand in for actions, feelings, relationships and instruction” (L. Rasmussen) Whooo, you should have heard Trasie’s sounds fill the air yesterday when Ruby Gene took off running out of the yard and into the street!  Once humans had language with which to express themselves, this combined with human developing a capacity to think beyond the present moment--You may say I’m a dreamer...but I’m not the only one. An ability to detach from our present reality it “in order to envision and create other worlds, or imagine different pasts and altered futures, with different ways to achieve them.” (L. Rasmussen) 

21st Century Reenactment of Genesis 3:8-19

Check out the story of Adam and Eve, the serpent and God, from Genesis 3:8-19

This story of Creation is timeless for many reasons. People may question the "facts of the story" (legitimately so), but no question about the intent of the story. We love to blame others for our actions. Save face! Save money! Protect our pride! Avoid punishment and lawsuits! Fool God (go ahead, try it). The woman YOU gave me made me do it (adam delivers a one two punch). The serpent made me do it.

And yesterday we see this scenario played out for the 10000000000th time (fat finger may lead to too many zeros...).

Before Sen. Jeff Bingaman and the rest of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, some higher ups from those (evidently not) responsible for the oil spill testified under oath.

Lamar McKay, the head of BP PLC's (BP, BP.LN) U.S. unit (I know that alphabet soup has British Petroleum in it),
Transocean Ltd. (RIG) Chief Executive Steve Newman, whose company owned the rig that BP leased, and Halliburton Corp.'s (HAL) chief safety officer, Tim Probert, whose company performed cementing work on an oil well.

Maybe there will be a cooperative effort to recognized the devastation caused each group taking responsibility so as to save time and money, and then working together to help limit the devastation caused on the Gulf.

Let's listen in: NPR story.

Oh, Genesis 3 all over again. And yes, paradise has been lost.