{"id":149,"date":"2019-03-10T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:09:31","slug":"walking-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Walking with God"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\" src=\"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/m4a\/Journey%20Notes%2005%20Walking%20with%20God%20Accomp.m4a\"     controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:,audioHeight:\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<p>Everyone who has ever heard the creation story has wondered the same thing: \u00a0what was it like?\u00a0 What was the garden of Eden like?\u00a0 What were the trees like?\u00a0 What was the water like?\u00a0 What did it sound like?\u00a0 How did it smell?\u00a0 How warm was the sun?\u00a0 How cool was the breeze?\u00a0 How refreshing were the mists?\u00a0 The biggest question for me, though:\u00a0 what was it like to walk with God when the earth was new?<\/p>\n<p>In Genesis we read that God walked through the garden in the cool of the day.\u00a0 What a fantastically inspiring thought, but what can I compare to it?\u00a0 I have had the pleasure of living by water a number of times during my life.\u00a0 Many mornings I have watched in wonder as a great blue heron would fly through the mist across the ponds, occasionally touching a wing tip to the water.\u00a0 Other times gentle rains would fall, each drop spreading ripples that expand, overlap, and finally disappear in the intricately patterned waves.\u00a0 So much beauty and so much grace, but nothing to compare with God.\u00a0 I have listened to babbling brooks.\u00a0 I have watched hawks soaring and deer leaping.\u00a0 But still nothing compares with the joy that wells up when I think of God walking through the garden.<\/p>\n<p>C. Austin Miles wrote the\u00a0hymn\u00a0<em>In the Garden (I Come to the Garden Alone)<\/em>.\u00a0 He recorded that when he penned those beautiful words, he had an image in his mind of Mary in the garden after Christ&#8217;s burial.\u00a0 It was a poignant picture of grief turning to joy as she met with Jesus, who was at the same time both her son and God the Son.\u00a0 As I read the words of the hymn, though, I also experience an inspiring and comforting image of walking personally through the garden of Eden with the Creator, God the Father.\u00a0 Think of communing with God as you read the words of the chorus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And he walks with me, and he talks with me,<br \/>\nand he tells me I am his own;<br \/>\nand the joy we share as we tarry there,<br \/>\nnone other has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>As you continue your pilgrim journey to the foot of the cross, may you know the joy of taking time to tarry with God in the garden.\u00a0 Then share that joy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In the Garden (United Methodist Hymnal #314)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zNjQrI_7Mo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Follow the Path!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>CARadke<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Use with <em>Walking with God<\/em>, day 5 of <a title=\"Order your copy of A Labyrinth Pilgrimage today!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3366946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A Labyrinth Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who has ever heard the creation story has wondered the same thing: \u00a0what was it like?\u00a0 What was the garden of Eden like?\u00a0 What were the trees like?\u00a0 What was the water like?\u00a0 What did it sound like?\u00a0 How &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-about-the-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}