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Did Adam Smell Like That?Last week, my husband plowed and disked some ground in preparation for a pumpkin patch. The girls and I were walking up the driveway after getting our mail and visiting Grandpa and Grandma as he was finished the disking. The soil looked so rich and dark. The smell of freshly plowed ground drifted our way. Such an earthy smell, not offensive at all. I told the girls, "Just think, God made Adam from dirt like this." My six year old was silent a moment, then reflected, "I wonder if Adam smelled like this after God made him?""And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). And for those like my husband there is just something about the soil that draws him. He was made from it to cultivate it in a very literal sense. He is an agronomist. He is an agrarian, a Christian agrarian. The complexity and chemical structure of the soil fascinates him. Bringing it into b�lance so it can produce healthy food for us challenges and motivates him. Since his boyhood days, the soil has drawn him. To see him subduing it and cultivating it in order to bring fruit forth from it is part of who he is and how God made him. I love watching him plow and I love watching our daughters as they frolic joyfully barefoot behind him through the freshly plowed ground. "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it" (Genesis 2:15). Grateful for good, healthy soil, Lisa 06:28 - 2006-May-12 - post comment
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