God and His Garden

We have both heard of the Garden of Eden, dear reader, where the first man took steps upon the grass, eating the fruit from the forbidden tree.

Of all the locations for Eden, it was a garden.

It could have been a library, an orchard, a forest, but it was a garden, God’s garden.

And now we sit in the world, the grass is green, the trees are tall, and we may feast upon earthly delights.

Do we live in the Garden, curious mind?

Is the forbidden tree of knowledge the deep workings of the mind?

The tree represents a choice, good or bad, now look at the architecture of your mind.

You are capable of choice, aren’t you, dear reader.

So perhaps the Garden was never a location we travel to on our feet, but one we journey toward through the expansion of the mind.

If you reach too far, if you take what is not yet yours, you fall; just as Icarus fell when he flew too close to the sun.

Perhaps the Bible was never a literal series of events, but an allegorical mystery.

Perhaps when Jesus walked on water, he was…