I loved our discussion about The Hedge and how Ms. Bear discussed the allegories that lie within it. The irony of how we can search our entire lives for something "more" and when we find what it is we think we are looking for, we realize it still isn't enough. The fact that we have a desire to search endlessly instead of being content is, in my opinion, the definition of original sin. When we sin, it is our way of saying that we are not content with the way our lives are at the present. The desire for contentment can only be satisfied through a relationship with God, and those who are inside of the Hedge seem to be realizing this, while those on the outside constantly run to find more and more of nothing. If we could find contentment with what God has given us, we could live our lives with a more definite purpose and sense of joy. I think that living with joy and contentment is really how God created us to be, and that we have perverted this is the ultimate sin.

P.S. posted on Cameron White's