The dawn of Eden

William Butler Yeats once wrote,"I would be innocent as the dawn". The dawn with it'virginal

view of the day portrays innocence well. For it's eyes are not yet fully open to make or pronounce a verdict upon the day dispensing neither judgement or mercy in it's inception, just pure innocence. Every dawn is a return to Eden. However , by dusk we are shut out by the flaming sword and banished by our own folly. We, like our ancient parentage of antiquity, choose to eat the same forbidden fruit- that of self awareness and knowledge outside of our creator. The revelation is always terrifying and we flee from the garden once again. We discover the same nakedness, shame, despair, and remorse. We were never created or intended to be self aware outside of God. There is no life outside of him. When we become attuned to the world created by him yet lack consciousness towards him we find we have no standing; no place in the world, all is meaningless ,void and empty. Without purpose we groan and flee in our despair.




God created us to be consciously self aware, but only within the safety of his presence. Our goal each new day should not be to ceaselessly struggle against eating the forbidden fruit but rather seek to retain the constancy of his glorious presence . In so doing the fruit will lose it's appeal and our focus becomes instead learning to cultivate his active presence and fellowship with his Holy Spirit. Only then can the, 'innocence of the dawn 'remain in you. When we are awakened to ourselves outside of him the need to meet our needs apart from him becomes oppressive and that always leads to sin and as the book of Romans says,"the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ," When we choose to walk and live outside of God we operate in an illusion that we have control of the elements around us. Subsequently we begin to think that we are God and act accordingly. In reality we are walking in an illusion for a season only to find death and calamity are at our door,the illusion is broken and we are undone.







This day I will retain and embrace 'the innocence of the dawn'. I will pursue only the knowledge of my life hidden in Christ in God. There is no self knowledge or self awareness outside of him but only an illusion. I will walk in step with my maker and converse with him in the cool of the day fearful only of being apart from his presence. I would share my heart with his limitless one. I would share my thoughts with his omniscient mind and be satisfied with what he says I cannot understand. I will name what creatures he brings me and work his garden well and lay me down to sleep a restful night in Eden.