All the way back at the beginning of the story, Adam and Eve took and ate the forbidden fruit from that one forbidden tree.17 They sinned. Then they hid, made clothes, argued, and blamed. They dealt with their sin through what Richard Foster calls “muchness and manyness,” what Michael Zigarelli names “busyness,” and what Dallas Willard diagnoses as “hurry.” And ever since then, we’ve always found it easiest to ignore the truth as long as we never stop moving.
