Many years ago Joni Mitchell wrote a song called ldquo Woodstock rdquo in which she saw the human race trapped in a ldquo bargain rdquo with the devil Urging her listeners to seek a simpler more peaceful existence she sang of a return to ldquo the garden rdquo Mitchell spoke for a generation longing for purpose and meaning Mitchell rsquo s poetical ldquo garden rdquo is Eden of course Eden was the paradise God created for us back in the beginning In this garden Adam and Eve met with God on a regular basis mdash until the day they made
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