Bone of My Bone

Not going to lie, I didn't understand this at first. I was pretty confused. I blame the fact that it's late and I got home from work not too long ago.

Gotta love the subscript!

Anyway, this talk that JP2 gave was the first talk on "Original Unity", or the unity/oneness that Adam and Eve (the first man and woman) had before the fall. He focuses mostly on a few versus of Genesis 2 when God takes the rib from Adam, encloses it with flesh, and creates Eve.

Which sort of begs the question: why would God do this? He just finished creating a whole world out of nothing, so why would He need anything from Adam to create Eve? The answer, He doesn't.

There's a cute little story, that man used to be this amazing creature but the gods were jealous and split man in half. So to this day, man is searching for his other half. This is a similar concept here. Even before Adam and Eve consummated their marriage, they were one. They were of the same body, just like babies are one body that comes from their parents.

Not only were Adam and Eve "one", but they were the same. Adam had never seen another person before, and he's excited! When we read "this time she is flesh from my flesh...." we normally just read through it. But JP2 calls Adam joyful. He is excited, almost praising this new creature. Eve is the most amazing thing Adam has ever seen.

As a girl, I like this. Sometimes I wonder, do guys ever think of me in this way? But then I think about all the degrading things in society... from grievous things like pornography to basic things like music... and I'm just not sure. Sometimes I lose faith that there's still such holy love and respect out there. But then I have my guy friends who are like this, who do respect and love women. And really, it makes me happy.

Chivalry for the win!!!!!

Dear Lord, I would like to thank you for all the people of the opposite gender. Please help me in my search for my other half, and I would like to thank you if I am lucky enough to have found such a person! Also, please help me to encourage my friends to live out this love in respect seen so early in human history. It can be hard Lord, but give me the grace! Amen