He sleeps peacefully beside a vernal pool surrounded by majestic trees on a grassy slope. Weather patterns are interesting where he and his wife live. No storms. Perfect humidity. Gentle breezes waft fragrant perfumes.
The man lies still after an intense night of loving embrace. Waking comes slowly as one rouses from a perfect sleep.
They had talked long into the night, with child-like trust. A fire of faith had almost grown cold. Both had reached out to one another and their creator, ‘We desire to have a child.’
Too many years had passed. Friends all around them had daughters and sons. Would God hear their prayer? They committed their bodies to him.
Enoch slips away from the warmth, dives headfirst into the waters, then stands still as the ripples settle.
“Lord, I give my life to you. May you do as you wish. Help me to know you. I really want to please you from this day forward.”
He speaks from his heart but is startled when words come out of his mouth.
Orna stirs, admires his perfect body, and praises God with a smile as she relaxes with a peace that only God gives. Together they dress under the sheltering arms of their tree now more than seven centuries of age.
It is an accepted truth. God created with a word everything that was created: their amazing bodies, the stars of the universe, and all these towering trees. It was direct and immediate. Many say he did it in six days.
Men live long and fast. Forests, rivers, earth, and stars beckon adventurous minds and reward with God-given wisdom. They see breath in lions, lambs, cows, wolves, and rabbits. Babies possess the blood passed on from mother to child which spoke of an essential element of life.
Their forefathers were created in the image of God. Enoch and Orna still bear his image even though they were conceived in sin.
Family love gives Enoch and one of his many cousins, Haran, countless adventures. They pack up needed supplies, live off the land for weeks in the forests. They love each other, work together in their well-known shop as they provide for their individual households. Such bonds are not easily broken. Nothing can ever separate them.