A precious gift from God

In Genesis 1 and 2, God talks about all of his splendid creation. The earth and its light and darkness. The sky that shines so blue when the sun is out. The other stars, like the sun, that light up the night sky. And the inhabitants on the earth. All of the plants and the animals. From the smallest organisms known as prokaryotes to eukaryotes; some of which are nearly too great to behold.
God brought all of these amazing animals to Adam to give the creatures a name. Adam must have been a busy man naming all the animals and I'm sure it brought him much joy knowing that God loved him enough to give him such responsibility. However, at the conclusion of Adam's task, God realized that Adam was alone. Specifically, the Lord said that for Adam, "no suitable helper was found." So the Lord caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep and took one of Adam's ribs, part of his own being, to create a woman.
When Adam awoke, the scriptures say that he said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman , for she was taken out of man." This is what the Scripture accounts, but I'm pretty sure when Adam woke up he probably gasped in amazement as he had never seen something so beautiful before. After a five minute, jaw-dropping, stunned silence, Adam probably mumbled these words.
And so it is for the rest of mankind. When a man finds his other half, and I will argue his better half, he truly knows the way that Adam felt at the first site of a woman.
I believe that this is God's second greatest gift in life. His greatest gift is obviously His Son. The perfect Savior who became our sinless sacrifice to cover up all our sins of past, present, and future. But even after salvation, life can bring some unexpected circumstances that leave us bewildered, reeling, possibly even crushed. We know that the Lord will always see us through our circumstances, but it sure is wonderful for me to think that in exactly three months I will be able to have rest in the Lord and a helpmate that is tangible. Often times, we need to have someone there to hold, to listen to our problems; basically somebody to carry out the Lord's comfort in a real way in our lives. I look forward to having this helpmate in Erica.

Ryan