means that, just like God’s heavenly children, humans were originally created as fit for the presence of God himself. God wanted his children with him. Creation was about family. When we reflect on the Eden story this way, the details of the wider Genesis story come into focus. God had done a lot of creating by the time he got to Adam and Eve: plants, insects, flying creatures, and land animals. As marvelous as they were, none of those creatures was capable of having