Outside of Eden

I read these three words today and something went tilt in my heart. 
We live outside of Eden.

It’s been this way almost since the beginning of time.                                                                                   
But not quite. 

For once there was an Eden.                 

One man, one woman and one God walked together, talked together, loved together.                             

But now we all live outside of Eden.

We still yearn for Eden living, for relationships that value and build into each other and find their true source in God.  For divine purpose and authenticity.    But outside the garden we are.  Outside is where our lives are played out.

And here where we live and love and work, there is ebola and jealousy and inequity.  Babies die, and moms get sick, and nations rage war against nation, peoples holding others in contempt.

Quite simply, we live outside of Eden.  All that Eden was, is no more.

 But does your heart not ring with that echo of Eden?  That hope that one day the wrongs will be righted, God will be God and we will return once and for all to the Eden that we were made for?