Good morning. Two directions we look toward in this life are: back to the Garden of Eden, and ahead to Heaven. Last night I, through some unknown cause, found myself pondering the hippopotamus. Aside the challenge of spelling the name, what else do we know about the beast? They are grayish in color, very round and heavy, and quite a large animal. They also tend toward a comic appearance and even their name sounds a bit humorous to our ears. However, they are very territorial and dangerous to humans. Many people are killed each year by the animals. I began to wonder if perhaps the hippo in the Garden of Eden was not some comical, ungainly, and dangerous creature, but a beautiful and sleek creature. I wondered if in the language of God that Adam used to name each creature, that maybe the name of this one was very flowing and symphonic to the ear. The hippo then may have been among the more faithful of animals and tended its portion of the Garden with great devotion. At the Fall, where humans and all other creatures were turned out of a paradise, perhaps the most faithful animals fell the hardest so to speak and what was once a beautiful creature became the ungainly and comic hippopotamus.
This might make an interesting children’s story; I may have heard something like this in my youth and taken the idea from there, I don’t know. This is quite unreasonable and even sentimental by the standards of reason and intellect. I find it amusing that God is hidden from human reason; we come to know him through faith and love.
God is with us always,
Bucky
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