Woman: Time to Relax & Enjoy the Beauty

I think that the fall has hit women harder than it has hit man. While man was created out in the wilderness and before the garden; woman was formed from man when man was in the garden. When woman was created, her very first experiences were in this perfect luxury. It was the best of every part of creation all come together. What she saw and what she knew was the beauty, the scents, the sounds, the comfort of the garden. As a result, this is one of woman's Base Experiences. This is what she was born into. This is what she knows. This is one of the main experiences that helps to define Eve as well as the entire female sex that succeeds her.

The more i look at the fall, what occurred, the more i realize how much it has affected us. Adam & Eve were driven out of the garden and into the wilderness. For the man the wilderness is where he had come from. The garden had been extra. It had been the icing on the cake. It had been the Sunday night football game relaxing in the recliner with some snacks and a drink rooting on his favorite team on a big screen HDtv. It was nice but not necessary. For woman, on the other hand, the loss of the garden was devastating. Everything that she knew was lost. It was going from the comforts and luxury of a new home, to being kicked out on the street.

Thus when woman needs a break. When she is looking for something to help ease the stresses and problems of life, she tends to look to what we would now consider luxury. The garden. The scents. The sounds. The comforts. For most woman, the ultimate getaway is a luxury spa. It is the attempt to regain that lost Garden Experience. Something that she will never have again in this world.

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Man: "You Can Take the Man Out of the Wilderness, but You Can't Take the Wilderness Out of the Man"

Everybody knows that there are differences between men and women. Some try to deny them and state that the only difference are those created by our societies in order to push women down, but it doesn't take a genius to recognize the obvious problems with that argument. Either way we're not here to argue that debate at this point. I did want to help us understand better how and why some of those diffences came to be.

As a stereotype (thus not 100% the case) women tend to seek comfort and luxury while men tend to seek mastery and experience. Believe it or not, the reason for this can be easily seen in the first two chapers of Genesis. When God created man on day 7 of creation, he was the last thing that God created. He was formed in the midst of God's other creations. As has been noted before, everything that God created on each of those 7 days relied upon what had been created before. In order for the seas and oceans to be sustained, they need heat & light or they would turn to ice. Land without water, heat, & light is just rock & dust. So on and so forth. The same thing with man. In order to survive man needs everything created before him.

What is interesting to note is that man was created in the wilderness. He was created on the 7th day after all of the water, land, plants, and animals had been created, but notice this...
Genesis 2:7-8 "And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And (after this) Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed."

Man existed in the wilderness before the Garden of Eden was ever planted. As a result, when man looks for relaxation and a break from the daily grind, oftentimes he wants to go fishing, or camping, or hunting, or he wants to be out playing sports, etc. He seeks and enjoys the challenge of the outdoors... of the wilderness. Golf for instance is all about mastery over the environment. It is man seeking to have mastery over both the land and the little ball. It is man and his simple tool (his club) proving mastery over a miles of land and a little white ball.

The comfort and luxury of the garden was created after man. It's nice, and good, and all, but it just doesn't compare to the wilderness and our need and desire to gain mastery over it. Thus deep down inside that desire and craving exists in all men. You can take the man out of the wilderness, but you can never truly take the wilderness out of the man.

... more next week!


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