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Meditation I

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Adam naming the Animals  To start from the beginning is to implicitly suggest that our genesis can be separated from our conclusion. The journey that has no destination. Yet, even journeys with no end in sight still commence knowing they will eventually come to a close. Perhaps the death of the traveler themselves. In this way, every story begins with "In the beginning" and ends with an amen, "so be it".  To continue on with this meditation, the story we share of ourselves, both individually and collectively, shape the way in which we live, move, and have our being. How we see our birth and how we view our death dictate - inasmuch as a speaker dictates to a scribe who has his own unique script and note taking strategies - how we go about interacting with those around us, human or not. We have a conclusion that continues into eternity, the ever growing in toward He whom we call God. As 2 Peter confirms and Genesis 1 makes explicit, we are to be partakers of the divin