The Only Before, before

I began the Bible again today, the Creation story, sin, expulsion, murder, vocation and families spreading out across the earth.  I always love beginning the Bible, the story is so fresh, brand new, nothing before like it, because there was no before.  How quickly it ends, six pages in and Eden is locked up, and we are hard at it.  The earth gives us glimpses of the before but nothing like it was when there was no before.  It is a slow hike to Christ, to His ascension, on to Revelation and then on to January 31, 1958, (my birth) and then to today September 14, 2019, and me wondering where is Eden and when will the gate be opened again and we all, the redeemed, be welcomed back?  “In the beginning God…”, The Only Before, before.