16/06/2026
When humanity was first created, we were made as close to God as we could be - he made us like Himself, and He made us to be in relationship with Him. No other animal or creature is described as in His image, and He does not have the relationship with any other animal which He had with humans. He made us specially, uniquely different from the rest - able to talk to Him, communicate, ask Him questions, work with Him. At the beginning of Genesis, prayer wasn’t something Adam had to close his eyes or put his hands together for, it was an open conversation with his Master, undistracted by anything around him, unafraid to ask or say anything to He who he knew loved him most. Adam didn’t talk to God because he felt like he had to, he didn’t think of it as a chore he had to do, it was the most natural thing in the world, and it didn’t stop just when he opened his eyes or at the word ‘amen’. This is what prayer was designed to be like... (taken from "Hello? Part Two", © 2026 Bradley Leighton, Mar 19, https://bleighton.substack.com/p/hello-part-two)
