Time and Impatience Part 1

I am convinced that part of the curse in the Garden of Eden was the curse of Time. I think when we were created on this Earth, being bound by the constraints of Time was not part of God's plan. When Adam & Eve had to leave the Garden of Eden, part of the curse when they left was now having to live in the Time dimension. When God told them they would surely die, He did not mean instaneously; He meant they would have to die physically, and that was not part of His original plan. The first reference made to the length of life for Adam and Eve was not upon their creation; it is in Gen. 3 vs. 14 and 17, when He is outlining the conditions of their fall and subsequent curse. To both of them He mentions "all the days of your life." I think this was the first information recorded that they would have been given to understand that their lives were not instantly over, but that they would now have an end.
This explains so much of my world: my penchant for impatience, my longing for different times and different passages of life; my discomfort with one area of life while I am completely contented at the same time with another area; my frustration at not being able to know what is coming up for us; my anxiety at not knowing where things will lead. C.S. Lewis referred to the fact that we never see fish uncomfortable in their natural surroundings of water, but we humans never have gotten comfortable in our surrounding of Time. It was one of the indicators for him that we were never meant to be mortal. I wholeheartedly agree. As we are told in Ecclesiastes, God has set eternity in our hearts so we naturally hunger for more than the Time period we are given to live out. To be continued.......