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What if a voice of sanity had risen up at various stages in the story of human history, to offer a challenging view when craziness was about to win the day?
If …
It was the third night in a row she had returned home from work brooding. It wasn’t that she was always a sparkling conversationalist, but now a sadness had etched its way onto her features, making her apppear continually unhappy, which left him a little disgruntled, feeling that he was somehow at fault.
Tired of being uncertain of her feelings and attitudes, he broached the issue.
“What’s wrong — and before you tell me nothing, let me tell you that I know there is something, so let’s work with it from that angle.”
She looked surprised.
He laughed. “So now you’re gonna act surprised,” he said. “I know you’re not surprised. You probably just don’t want to talk about it.”
She took a long pause–so lengthy that he almost inserted another opinion, but restrained himself to allow her space.
“I have something to tell you,” she began, tears forming in her eyes.
He squelched an internal flinch, wondering how this could end up with anything good.
She continued. “You know that tree we were supposed to avoid?”
He thought for a second, then remembered and nodded.
She went on with her tale. “Well, I was a little confused about it. Maybe even a little frustrated. So I spent some time down there, just checking it out. I immediately discovered it wasn’t that different from any other tree on our land. Matter of fact, it was rather pleasant looking. Appealing.”
He resisted the instinct to interrupt and just nodded again.
“Well, long story short, I got tempted, maybe even urged, to eat the fruit. And ever since then, I’ve felt guilty and naked.”
“What do you mean by naked?” he inquired.
She squinted. “You know. Without being covered.”
“Covered with what?” he asked, frowning.
“I don’t know. This is why I didn’t want to tell you. I knew you wouldn’t understand. You are so much a man…”
“Now I am confused,” he inserted. “We’ve never talked like this before. It was never ‘man’ and ‘woman.’ Just us. What’s going on?”
“I ate the goddamned fruit,” she screamed. “There! You’ve got it.”
Adam took a deep breath. He knew the next thing he would say was crucial. “So that’s why you feel bad?”
“No!” she said emphatically. “I feel good! Alive! Alert. Just confused. Maybe if you ate the fruit with me and shared in the experience we could work it out together. Aren’t you self-conscious about being naked?”
“Actually,” he replied, “I’m baffled about the concept. I just thought this is the way we came.”
She sighed, frowned, hissed and grumbled all at the same time. At length she spoke.
“So are you gonna eat the fruit with me or not?”
He took her by the shoulders, pulled her close and kissed her on the forehead.
“No. What we’re going to do is take you to our Creator and explain what happened.”
She pulled back in horror. “No damn way! He’s gonna kill me. Isn’t that what He said? If you eat the fruit you’ll die?”
“Yes,” said Adam. “But I didn’t know what it meant, so I just kind of ignored it.”
“I don’t want to die,” said Eve.
“I don’t want to lose you,” said Adam. “But … I don’t want to lose Him either. Don’t make me choose.”
She burst into tears. He embraced her and held her close.
“Listen,” he said. “If He loved us enough to make us, He sure can love us enough to forgive us.”
“Us?” she questioned.
“Yes. We’re in this together. And together, let’s go talk to Him.”
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