Once There Was An Eden

Once there was an Eden:

once there was an Eden, and this was home, earth, not a far place to one day attain but immediate in its presence. We were never asked to leave, belonging here, and our only task was to honor what was so freely given, to care for the holiness of land and the bounty that it offered. This was the garden of God and considered so due to our communication with the land, everything sacred, speaking to us of healing and nourishment, what plants, roots, and fruit to gather and what to avoid. We learned secrets of cultivation, stewardship of plants and animals, caring for the land. 

once there was an Eden.

home.

we are in crisis, Eden burning, no longer seen as sacred and communication with earth all but gone. We were never asked to leave the garden, but willingly abandoned our home, polluted, defiled, and gave worship to the very things that caused its destruction.  Yet this is still, and always, holy land, and will speak to us again if we listen. It's right now that we have the true tree of knowledge, a choice to make, and with nothing forbidden. We can be our own savior or the instrument of the earths destruction, and the temptation is one of profit at the cost Eden, an ego's choice above the voice of spirit urging our return to listening to the land, relearning secrets of its healing ways. 

once there was an Eden,

and still,

a promise of return.

"all the way to heaven is heaven" said Saint Catherine of Siena and where does this leave off, at any point does earth cease to be the garden? This is our only promised land and we are undeserving of more if we fail in our care. What we are asked to do is simple; to listen again to the earth, remembering its voice as our own, that there is only one sacred song and it sings of our inclusion. We weren't given Eden, we come of its own soil, pure land ourselves, root deep, organic of presence and soul. 

we are of home...

all the way to Eden.

~

Peace, Eric