I'm going to be honest when Rapheal and Adam were discussing how Eve is below Adam, I got aggravated, but I'm not going to blog about that. Instead I'm focusing on a passage that comes later in book 8. I absolutely adore the way Adam describes their relationship in lines 604-606. As a couple they have so much harmony and peace. Earlier in book four, they sounded like that sappy couple that make googlie eyes at each other and makes everyone around them sick. But in these lines Adam is making their relationship deeper which makes it harder for me in book nine when they fall and they fight. Their perfectly harmonious relationship is done. Adam's view towards her is forever changed. He will never be able to look at Eve the way he did before the fall. They will have moments of harmony, but it will be nothing compared to what they had. To be honest, that stinks. They knew what a perfect relationship was like and they lost it. Today we can only imagine the perfect relationship while we watch the newest Nicholas Sparks movie, but when the credits start we know it is fantasy and unrealistic because of sin. To have actually lived one and then thrown it away would have been horrible.
P.S. I commented on Abbie Griffin's!
That is very true. As much as I flinch with the sappiness of their relationship, it flows from the pure love they have for each other, rather than a need for affirmation.
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed the substance to their relationship. I was highlighting all of the things Adam was saying about their love. It truly is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed the substance to their relationship. I was highlighting all of the things Adam was saying about their love. It truly is beautiful!
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