True Love: I am in you and you are in me and that is forever, so it may take awhile.

This morning, I heard a wonderful homily regarding Adam and Eve..at one point the homiliest said something like "God never forgave Adam and Eve" they were kicked out - he added, with some clothes God sewed for them to make sure they were warm while banished (love that image too). This is totally out of context and it was an absolutely wonderful homily about separation - Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil vs. Tree of Eternal Life - independence vs. neediness.

However...It made me remember an ancient homily I recently read.

It was about..Jesus/God/Love does not want any one of his sheep to be lost, not a one - especially not Adam and Eve.

the forgiveness of Adam and Eve (His creation)
was Jesus purpose, forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation for mankind.

In becoming Jesus, God not only was Adam and Eve's Creator, he then also became their Son.
Son of Man (Adam's son), Son of the mother of the Living - (Eve's son).

How more intimate can you get?

God loved Adam and Eve (his creation) so much,
so so very much, and maybe he missed them.
His relationship with his chosen people was good but perhaps
He wanted a close, intimate relationship again with his creation
so so very much that he literally became His creation (man) Himself.

In the form of Jesus, God lived, died,
even descended into Hell with the dead to bring them (Adam and Eve aka his creation) back - those who had died before His act of eternal redemption/salvation.

Maybe you have, but I had never looked at it that way.

Here... this is the ancient homily regarding Holy Saturday (the time after Jesus's death on the cross (Good Friday), prior to rising again - (Easter) - it still gives me goosebumps....

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Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep.

The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . .

He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him -
He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead."488 (Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday)

Biblical musings...

Peace
Keren