So often this is our story, waking up an realizeing that God has been with us, yet we did not know it. A underlying condition of the fall is a dersire to be indipendent, which always resutls in death and decay. We were created and redeemed to be dependent upon Him, a continual and constent dependence. God is now, He is the great I AM, He lives in our present. We spend to much time regetting the past or worshiping the unkowen furture, insteast of living in the now with Him. He promises to never Leave or forsake us, we must learn to celebrate each step we take.

Genesis 28:16