Adam trudged past the gates of Eden, his head low, his heart heavy with the pain of remorse. Suddenly he stopped. A thought had struck him. He turned to the heavens and exclaimed, “You had this planned! You put that fruit there knowing I would choose to eat from it!” “But tell me: Why? The heavens were silent. But we have found an answer. Without failure, we can never truly reach into the depths of our souls. We cannot know that our choices matter, and that we hold our destiny in our hands. That we exist. With that failure and that discovery, we can return to the garden, reaching higher and higher...