you throw your arms around my heart
as if to say you're all i need A sermon on Eden : We can’t really talk about what this passage is . Can we? Unfortunately for us , this piece of Scripture is, before it’s anything else, a story of what’s been lost . Eden isn’t the story of what is. It’s the story of what isn’t . Why so far removed are we from this account that if we try and imagine it, we're called up short almost immediately? I mean, what , after all, is lost in Eden? Was it Paradise ? Was it immortality ? Truthfully, though , if I try to picture any of that, I lose interest after about 30 seconds! Sure, it sounds fun to romp through that picture- perfect Eden. But only for a while! What would I do after that? And immortality is no better, either! In fact, it’s worse ! Add immortality to our estimations of Eden, and you wind up doomed to Paradise! Stuck in the Garden forever, twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do! No, thank you! Sure, life east of Eden may be imperfect , but at least ...