When was last time you were surrounded by silence? It seems that background noise is an ever-present reality of our world. The T.V. and radio are our constant companions. Our children play with electronic toys that beep and wail at push of a button. Our streets are full of roaring engines, tooting horns, and pounding of construction. At night, we may run a fan or have an air conditioner humming in background. We do not even sleep in silence. The sounds of nature and indeed sounds of our own mind are drowned out by constant din.

What is it about silence that makes us so uncomfortable? While we have little control over many of noises of our world, what about ones we can control? How often do we make conscious choice to turn off background noise, to pay attention to that which is within us? What is it that we are afraid we will find? It is in those all too rare moments of silence that we can truly come to know ourselves.

Only two people who have known each other a great deal can sit comfortably in silence. Among new acquaintances, we force ourselves to keep conversation going. Silence feels forced and awkward. In intimacy of an old friendship or within a marriage, however, silence can be comforting. We do not feel need to always come up with something to talk about. There is no pressure to perform. Nothing is forced. We are free to just be in presence of other.

To truly understand our roots and beginnings as Christians, we have to fully understand what occurred in this story. In this article, we will cover basic highlights of exactly what God was doing when He created first man and first woman and what happened when they could not stay off of one tree that He told them not to eat from.

As a result of their one disobedient act, all of mankind had to be born into an imperfect fallen world subject to death, corruption, demonic spirits and bad and evil people who have chosen with their free wills to live this life on dark side - thereby causing untold pain, death and misery to millions of people throughout ages.