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Mountain and Valley: The former represents serenity, contemplation, and insight; the latter toil, struggle, and pain. Both are necessary and complementary aspects of our existence, and yet our tendency is to elevate the one and downgrade the other. Either we romanticize the peak and its focus on the inner life or “inscape,” or we lose ourselves in the hustle and bustle of the valley, never withdrawing from the fray to get a fresh perspective on life.

The stars are ripe with prophecy in the clan of Adam and Eve about an ominous angelic incursion coming to the Earth. But Baraqua, a beautiful young woman of their clan, is unconcerned about anything but her schemes to marry a man forbidden to her. When her face appears in the dreams of Jared, the youngest elder, Baraqua is required by tradition to marry him. In the struggle of wills that follows, Adam and the elders can only pray that this headstrong scribe’s daughter will give birth to the world’s Savior, who will lead them safely back to the Garden of Eden.

The story: What if you said a prayer and then changed your mind. But before you could take it back, God answered it? When Roger Grayson said the animals should rule the world, God was listening. And his family will never be the same again. For one day the Graysons live among the animals and learn the meaning of love, courage and commitment