His Burden is Light

Christians often get asked questions like, "If God knew Adam and Eve would eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, why did He put it in the Garden of Eden in the first place?" Or, "Why did God put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden and then Command Adam and Eve not to eat of it?" I would begin to answer this question as follows. A child is happy in the care of his parents. The child is content even if Dad loses his job and the family has to live in a car or a temporary shelter. That was an evil event that befell the family but the child simply trusts in his father and is sheltered from the experience of evil. The only time the child truly knows evil is if his father himself is taken away. Then the one in whom the child trusted and depended is gone and responsibility for his own needs falls upon the child himself. He now has the knowledge of good and evil. So really the first thing we must understand in answering this question is what...

Steven Fish was sitting in his wheelchair facing out the window of the M.C.C. at Southlake Regional Health Centre. He was tired from having done physio/rehab earlier that day but he had just been bathed and that was always refreshing. So while he waited for dinner he wheeled himself to the window and sat looking out at the trees by the creek and the city buildings all around and the distant people walking up and down the sidewalks. It was nearly winter and the skies were grey and it got dark early. Steven didn't have a lot to think about when it came to taking care of himself. His meals and clothes were provided to him at the hospital and his personal needs were also assisted. When he had to go somewhere else in the hospital, such as for physio/rehab, or when his social worker came to visit him, they came to him and took him where he needed to go. He did like to know when people were coming to see him however, so that he could look forward to it. Because Steven didn't have ...