Garden of Eden

Genesis 1-3 describes the story that almost all of us are familiar with; the story of creation and temptation. God creates Earth and God creates man and God creates woman from man. Then, the evil serpent takes a break from sunbathing in the garden to pester the woman about eating the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall she touch it, lest she die. She eats the forbidden fruit, hands a little over to her husband, and sees the world anew as her eyes are finally opened (for the worse, perhaps?). The man and the woman play the blame game on each other until God punishes the serpent, the man, and the woman for their actions.

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We all have experiences these moments of desire and temptation. Although our experiences don't carry the everlasting weight of Adam and Eve's, we still have had times where we can't think of anything else but giving into our temptations. My story revolves around a young Leah that knew her Christmas present was hidden in the house, somewhere in some closet under some things. She searched every single day and became the sneakiest little child her mother had ever raised. She discovered her brand new doll house and kept it a surprise until her Christmas day excitement was a smidgen too forced. Not one December 25th has gone by in which my sneaky and disobedient behaviors are not brought up in some way or another.