The Garden of Eden . . . is the place of God’s creativity, the place of God’s habitation. The idyllic description of the garden in Genesis is a picture of how God wants his world to be and how God and humanity commune. The picture is one of relationship. Adam and Eve in harmony with God, with each other, and with nature. — Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 32.