The story of OTF through the lens of a lover & partner.
The sadness, the wounds, the pain, the suffering... the darkness must be endured before learning to appreciate the joy in sources of light which illuminates humble beauty. 🖤
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When God created woman from man he created love. But love is so mysterious. Love is so curious. Curiosity about the love of all Gods great creations is what exposed man & woman's eyes to sin.
It was a serpent that led woman to become curious about the forbidden fruits. A snake in the garden led woman to wonder what the fruits of the middle bared. If God knew, why shouldn't she? Yet man blames woman. The woman God made for him to love.
And what's a wife without her husband, right? For better or for worse. The foundation of family is man and wife.
But we choose our husbands and our wives. We choose what man we want to submit to, and what woman we want to nurture for us. This is a mans world, but it wouldn't be nothing without a woman... or a girl.
God cursed the serpent to these grounds, to be wild, domestic, & grovel on its belly. He warned that He would cause hostility between the serpent & the woman, and the hostility would continue to cycle between their offspring. He concluded that the serpent would strike at the head and you would strike at the heel.
God cursed the womb of woman. The pain of labor. He also warned that her desire would be to control her husband, but she will not. He will rule over her.
But because God made this world for man, and gave him control over woman, he punished him to labor. To work these grounds that are cursed with both good & evil now. God gave man control, to rule, yet he listened to his wife and ate from the tree that He forbid them not to. Now he will have to work hard & sweat by the brow to provide from the thorns & thistle in order to bare good grain from the trees of life.
God also reminded man that he was made from dust, and to dust he would return once his work was done.
Man knew his duty from dust was to work to build a world that would cover a multitude of sin through love. He named his wife, Eve— meaning to give life, a mother of all the living.
Since man knew both good and evil now, God banished the man & his wife from the Garden of Eden commanding that he does not take from that tree of life in the middle, because then they live forever like Him.
But God left something innocent in the East. And he placed a flaming sword that would flash back & forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
It would take an entire village living in sin being corrected by God to discover the innocence of life in the middle that was intended from the start. The village would have needs, creating more & more idol things to desire.. and everyone in it would have to operate as a system, knowing their roles, in order to become better & attain more.
The problem lies in curiosity. Desiring the idols things more than the correction of God. Being exposed to too much, too soon without clarity. But God has a plan. And He knows the plans the He has for us, which are not plans to harm us, but plans for us to prosper.
It will hurt, but we will grow. Together. Through our family. Through our village. 🖤
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