A Stolen Life - A Memoir Part 13

10 things I want to do

1. Lose weight

2. Do yoga in the morning

3. Write more

4. Learn something new

5. See all the people I care about

6. Learn 2 different languages

7. Learn to paraglide

8. Travel around the world

9. Learn to snorkel

10. See my mom

MARCH 28, 2006

My Dreams for the Future

1. See Mom

2. See Pyramids

3. Ride in a hot-air balloon

4. Learn to drive

5. Swim with dolphins

6. Touch a whale

7. Take a train ride

8. Learn to sail an old-fas.h.i.+oned sailing s.h.i.+p

9. Write a best seller

10. Horseback ride on the beach every day

This is one of the Bible studies Phillip made us sit through:

John 1:1

Wisdom was created before everything.

G.o.d represents a way of living one's life. G.o.d holds and stands by wisdom, love, and justice. They are one.

[The]woman is in all of us. She represents our subconscious. She is inside of us always making good and bad decisions. Man represents male and female. The garden or field in the Bible is the inner workings of our minds. G.o.d developed man [humans, male and female] through stages in the evolution of our minds. We as humans have not yet awakened from the deep sleep and we have not become one with our inner woman [subconscious]. We have not shed our clothes [bad behavior] and become naked. Living as G.o.d [a way of life] our creator intended.

The serpent in the Garden of Eden [our minds] represents our subconscious and our conscious talking to each other. Like the battle sometimes we have within ourselves. Telling us to do something even when you know it's wrong or has the potential to be wrong or dangerous if you have never had the experience of doing it, how can you ever win the battle? So the woman [Eve in the garden, our subconscious] gave the apple [a new experience] to her husband [our subconscious, Adam]. Our creator knew the only way to develop man so he could one day become like G.o.d was to let man learn through experience.