When God had finished making His sand-sculpted man, He gave life to His newest creation. Using His mouth, not to speak this time, God breathed life into the first man. Humans are a unique mixture of heaven and earth. We are made here on this dusty blue-green orb, but our life is from God. Next in the text we see an interesting outgrowth of being created from the ground. The fruit of Adam's labour emerges from the same place he came from -- the earth or nature. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). And that's been a major source of identity for humankind since. We are the custodians of the earth. We even call "her" our mother. We truly are the children of both God and nature, for that is how He created us. Thus finding a love for both God and nature brings us inner peace and fulfils our destiny. After creating Adam, God had a special job for the first man to do. "Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of