Cool of the Morning

The coolest time of the day, on the average, is about a half hour after sunrise. In the desert hot summers, my favorite time to run (it takes me about two hours to run 15 miles without getting too out of breath) begins with morning’s twilight. One benefit of the eastern mountains is that they keep the sun from striking directly for an hour even after sunrise. The cool of the morning is thus extended.

It was Adam’s custom to spend time with God in the cool of the morning. It was God’s custom not to hang around longer. After daily divine guidance, Adam and Eve were expected to make it through each day using and developing understanding, logic and feelings on their own. In eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, they sought to make the cool-of-the-morning meetings with God unnecessary.

Still, man’s first problem is that he wants to order the world by his own ability, apart from considering any "divine perspective". Today, man exercises his freedom to disorder the world. Yet God provides a way, for the individual, to get into a better position than Adam lost. Divine counsel is now available moment to moment, and ample freedom to develop our own understanding, logic and feelings exists, as always, within the counsel. Unless, of course, you think you have a better idea.