Chapter One
Return to the Garden
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalm 51:17
ONCE there was a garden where prayer flowed like rivers, where thanksgiving
sprang up like grass, and worship fell like morning rain. In that garden, that
distant land, that long ago paradise, a friendship with the Father was the most
natural thing on earth. In that garden we walked and talked with God.
That relationship was the one for which the Creator designed us. And although it
contained everything we would ever require for fulfillment and joy, we let it
go. We let it slip away. We let go of love and touched temptation and the garden
vanished.
Now many times we move through our lives without even realizing that the most
essential part of who we are is missing, like a phantom limb. We experience an
aching emptiness at the center of ourselves we can't qui ...
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