Searching for Eden

[He] lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds.  

- Ps 104 

I'm working on a song from the first few chapters of Genesis. At the beginning of writing a song I always struggle to find the angle, the vantage point, or the voice for the song. Once I get that I can get some momentum because I can see from inside the story and just walk through it trying to describe what's around me. 

So I'm struggling with this song about Eden and the Fall. I feel overwhelmed at trying to capture such a deeply resonate true myth in a single song. There's a lot of theology I'd like to cover, a lot of real human ache and homelessness, so much beauty I'd like to convey. It's really a challenge! 

How do I find language for all this? How do I find melody? 

I thought of Psalm 104. It's got the ring of a rightly ordered cosmos. All creation is leaping in joy under the good rule of the True King, the one who rests and rules from his Sabbath Throne. We tried to overthrow that Sabbath Throne and have fallen so far from the peace and joy God intended. 

What also strikes me about Psalm 104 is the imagery. It's so wild and fantastic!  Palaces built on rain clouds, mountains that smoulder at his touch, prowling beasts, water like a garment for the earth, a king robed in a garment of light, and so on. I love it. 

Some say that the Bible is just a myth fashioned after all the other myths. No, the Bible is the True Myth, the King of Myths for which all other myths are merely a searching. Chesterton said all myth was a search. 

My whole life is a myth searching for its origin. Where did I come from? What have I lost? I am always on a journey to be remembered to my true home, to my true King and to rest beneath his Sabbath Rule.