We were supposed to be friends... longing for Eden


Hello! Sorry to all of you who were following my blog! I lost access to it for a while after Google took over everything, but now I am back online with it. So, there will be more posting on here.

I’ll start by sharing a story. A few days ago, Katie and I went to the market to buy vegetables and meat. It is much cheaper than going to the grocery store. The produce is also a lot fresher.

While we were buying meat, Katie noticed a hedgehog in a net lying in a small plastic basin. He seemed aggravated and scared. We have both been going to this market for years, but we have never seen a hedgehog there. As it turns out, hedgehogs are used in Chinese traditional medicine.

Katie just couldn’t leave. She bought the hedgehog for about three dollars, and we brought it back to my house. We put it in a large cardboard box, and put some leaves and branches in the box too. We also provided it with several types of food – apple and potato chunks, pork, etc. He did a lot of sleeping. We had planned to release him in a park later that night.



As the day progressed, Katie and I were both hard at work. Several times I laughed, just thinking about the fact that there was a hedgehog in my living room. Who can say that? I also started to remember in Genesis how Adam was able to talk to the animals. I marveled at what it must have been like in Eden and how amazing it must have been. My heart longed for it… It reminded me that we were made for something so much more. It’s amazing how animals can draw out such feelings.

Later in the evening, we took him to a park with plenty of undisturbed forested areas and released him. Then we prayed for him, and thanked God for the time that we had with such an amazing little creature.


This whole thing also made me again realize the amazing heart of my fiancée. She is an extraordinary woman, to say the least, and I am truly blessed!

“Get treated like a dumb animal long enough, that’s what you become. You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember.”
             -Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

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