The Second Account of Creation, part 1

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Hymn for the Morning

By Salt of the Sound (with Dear Gravity)

Meditations, Vol. 7 | Echoes Blue Music

Pray As You Grow Theme Music (Guitar version)

Pray As You Grow Theme Music (Guitar version) | Noah Lawson (create for Pray As You Go)

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Pray As You Grow Theme Music (Guitar version)

As we begin, reflect on God, who is with you here and now…

Take a moment to breathe, and think about God’s gaze of love upon you...

Ask God to guide you in this time of prayer…

This passage takes us to the garden where God is creating. Enter the garden and absorb the sights, smells and sounds. Listen carefully to the events as they unfold and notice your response...

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Genesis 2:5-10, 15-23

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it. Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said,

“This one at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.”

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Hymn for the Morning

Salt of the Sound (with Dear Gravity)

What do you feel watching God create in the garden?