Struggling Well With Life

I have been in a quandary of late where to spend time in the Word, and after a brief trip through the Psalms I ended up at the beginning again - Genesis. I love the discovery of the Scriptures - you can read something so familiar, and yet see it for the first time. Interesting that after Adam and Eve sinned, they hid, and then covered up. I guess we really are related. Don’t we do the same? When we have messed up, we hide and cover. Now I don’t know how advanced Adam and Eve’s theology was, but no doubt they discovered that you cannot hide from God. As hard as we try there is just no getting away from Him. There is nowhere to run where He is not already there. Where Can we flea from His presence? But we hide and cover anyway, foolishly. There are a few phrases we use down here in the south when someone is foolish - “bless their heart” or “God love em”. Well, bless our hearts and God love us for hiding and covering from an omnipresent God. Oh the time and energy I have wasted in hiding in relationships, food, stuff, a packed schedule, you name it - I have probably hidden behind it! And the cycle always ends with me before God with His arms wide open, not condemning, but loving. It may be my human nature to hide and cover, it may even be my sin nature, but God help me, help us, not to hide - but to move, even run into the light of His presence.