"And Seth, to him who was born a son, and he called his name Enos; then began men to call upon the name of the Lord"
Not until then? Was it because the memory of Eden was becoming dim, and the easy communication with the Lord who walked in the garden In the cool of the evening was no longer possible? Was it a longing cry of homesickness as the Lord called out when Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the forbidden tree, "where are you?" In wounded love, so were el's people now beginning to ache from their wounds and to call out to their begetter? Was that the beginning of conscious, verbalized prayer? In the Garden, prayer has been all of life; eating, knowing each other, sleeping, all were part of prayer. So wasn't the Fall the braking of life into fragments which needed to be put back together by prayer? (83)
From "And it was good" by Madeleine L'engle.
