Hey friends, welcome to the Graceology with Gwen Smith podcast.

I'm Gwen Smith and I'm really glad you're here.

Each week I host two different shows, one with incredible guests and meaningful conversations,

and one called A Moment of Grace, where

it's just me, talking to just you, in a reflective, devotional style to help connect those

busy, bruised, and broken places to the beautiful hope of Jesus. So now I invite you to sit

back and take a deep breath as I share with you a moment of grace.

It's recorded in the book of Genesis that at the dawn of creation, God made the heavens and the earth,

separated light from darkness, and that everything was good.

Then he held the sky away from the water, established day and night, and it was good.

Next he spoke the land, seas, sun, moon, and stars into existence, and again, all good.

He went on to fill the earth with fish, birds, and animals,

and fashioned man in his own image, and it was good, good, good, and good. Then he rested,

which we all know is awesome. Amen? Amen. Peace covered the earth like a warm blanket. God had a perfect relationship with all

that he had created. Adam and Eve got to know him intimately. They walked and talked with him in the

Garden of Eden in a way so pure and sacred I can scarcely imagine.

Then Adam and Eve wrecked the good with greed.

They rejected what was meant to be respected,

took what was not theirs to take,

and ate what was not theirs to eat,

and sent perfection into a downward spiral of impossibility.

After good was spoken and perfection broken, God sent Adam and Eve out of Eden.

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