…the best good in the madness under the sun is found when we recover some small resemblance to what we were made for in Eden. We remember that God’s gift to humanity has not quit, even though we have and the world now groans. We remember Adam and Eve’s season prior to their fall, and we learn again to long for that recovery while we are migrants here, worn out among the shanties.
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God created us. His good gifts remain for us and for our joy. Counterfeit gifts, forged advantages, and illusory pleasures now abound like weeds bent on choking out the flowerbed. Everything is without meaning now. But there are these flowers that still bloom, these leftover beauties that do not quit. These small voices give witness still to the moaning world.
Zack Eswine, Recovering Eden, P&R, 2014, pgs 15-16
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