I was first asked this question from a wide-eyed 5 year old in my scripture class back in the day. I thought it an odd question at the time. But after been asked this many times since by children, it got me thinking, ‘Why do people ask this question’?

So here is my attempt at answering it:

Everything we see, I mean everything- has a beginning. You’re sitting on a chair, someone made that. You are looking at a screen, quite a few people invented that. The list goes on; we look at things and it makes sense that it’s there, because someone made it. There is no mental stress involved here.

But then people tell us that there is a God. And we want to know, where did God come from? Who made God? We treat the existence of God with the same mental patterning as everything else and we cannot fathom the answer. The answer being that God was ALWAYS there! Always, meaning forever. Now there is mental stress involved, and we find it very hard to resolve this.

No one created God. And we can’t get our head around it. If you think about it, if someone created God, then they would be God.

The very definition of God is that:

He. Was. Always. There.

So that’s my answer, God is/was always there. And the reason that we cannot understand this answer, is that everything else has a beginning, which creates a cognitive dissonance (mental stress) that we cannot resolve.

The scripture verse I’d like to leave you with is the first verse of the bible, Genesis 1,

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

God, who was always here, started to create, and the first thing He did was to build a world for you and me to live in. What a wonderful world we live in, and what an awesome God we have.

What a great question, so glad they asked.

Blessings, Vetti x

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Isaiah 58:11

Here we are at the beginning of another year. I hope this year finds you with peace in your home, purpose in your work and hope for your soul.

During the holidays hubby and I have stumbled across finding an extra purpose for our life and while it’s so simple, it gives us so much joy!

It started when friends we knew from a long time ago had reconnected with us. They were a little lost, somewhat broken (aren’t we all 😊), and wanted to find somewhere to belong. We invited them to our church which they enjoyed, but they needed a space to find deeper connections with more people than just us.

So, I invited them along with 4 other couples to our place for a BBQ in an attempt for people to get to know our friends. The threatening clouds thankfully held back from dampening the outdoor event. At one point I looked around at the guests, and my heart skipped a beat seeing people deep in conversation. It turned out, not only did our friends enjoy this time, so did the others who were also wanting to find a place of belonging. Now every month or so there will be an open invitation for people to come and mingle get to know each other at a deeper level.

And I love this. I love that the past year hubby and I have spent many weekends working in the garden to make a humble sanctuary for people to connect with each other, with an ultimate goal of connecting with God. After all, in the garden of Eden is where man’s first communion with God happened, let’s hope it’s not the last.

Question: What do you really enjoy doing? Can you bring others along your passion with you?

Be Blessed. Yvette Wynne