Ok, so I was talking with one of my friends the other day and she told me to go out and get this book...listening to her was the best decision I've made in a long time! I can't even describe how good it is...
Here's a quote (more like an excerpt...sorry it's just too good):
"Standing before that tree, laden with fruit withheld, we listen to Evil's murmur, 'In the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened...'(Genesis 3:5). But in the beginning, our eyes were already open. Our sight was perfect. Our vision let us see a world spilling with goodness. Our eyes fell on nothing but the glory of God. We saw God as He truly is: good. But we were lured by the deception that there was more to a full life, there was more to see. And true, there was more to see: the ugliness we hadn't beheld, the sinfulness we hadn't witnessed, the loss we hadn't known. We eat. And in an instant, we are blind. No longer do we see God as one we can truss. No longer do we perceive Him as wholly good. No longer do we observe all of the remaining paradise. We eat. And in an instant, we see. Everywhere we look, a world of lack, a universe of loss, a cosmos of scarcity and injustice."

YES! I knew you'd love it as much as I do :)
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