“To my beloved Eve...”
 
 
Adam’s first day without Eve My dearest Eve, I love to watch the children laugh and play. They have no concern for anything except where that little butterfly is going or what the animals are doing. For a short time at least they enjoy the freedom of a life without fear in their curiosity and I like that. It reminds me of those few days we had in the garden and how curious we were then. Before your arrival I explored as much as possible, but I stopped so often I didn’t get too very far. There was simply too much to take in; the variety of flowers and trees, the water that poured out of the earth and over the rocks, down into the lagoon and out to the great river that flowed into the valley of lights. All of it combined to make for an almost inconceivable variety of fascinating things, as well as the array of beauty to see - and all that even before the animals were there! I distinctly remember feeling a profound inner peace that went all the way down to the bottom of my being – something I miss now in this world with constant threats of painful surprises. In the garden, there was energy to life that made standing still seem like a waste of time. Time? Time was not a factor in paradise. It just occurred to me that I never thought about time at all in Eden, until we lost it. After you arrived, it seemed like time with you was the shortest. By far, our days together are the most enjoyable times I remember about Paradise and still are today. Looking back, each moment in Paradise is a precious and irreplaceable memory of a time when evil meant nothing to us...