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i want to start again

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sunsets, new babbling man A sermon on The Fall : It may have been the first time , but it certainly wasn't the last . And you know what I mean… We start here, at “The Fall.” And where else? After all, this is as far back as we can go. Our eyes have been opened, we can’t see how things were before… This account of God carefully creating everything, zooms onto this day. We watch as the first article of the creed, happens . God, the caring Father creates heaven, earth and all that’s in-between.  The verdant creation. All the animals of the field and birds of the air. God’s search for a suitable companion for the Adam. Finally forming another human. The barely contained joy over all that God has done; “This at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh,” cried Adam.  But of course we all know what happens.  And not because we’re biblical scholars. No. We know this story because it’s our story.  The fall is tragic . But not only ...