Eden and Avalon.

I was doing a few jobs in my greenhouse earlier and I took to watching the insects going about their business. It seemed that I had created a world for them to live in, a sort of Garden of Eden if you like. And then I thought about my recent experiences with the landscape and the essence of nature, the reality that I have come to think of as Avalon.

It struck me that Eden is a place where we play at being God, like children playing with toy cars and dolls. It’s a place that leads us to look inwards and backwards. Avalon, on the other hand, is where the God within us looks outwards, and gives us a glimpse of the road home.