just think

I was just sitting here, listening to my roommate talk about her sister, who's recently married. It made this connection with something that came to mind this past Sunday -- I was teaching Sunday School, and we were talking about Adam and Eve and the Fall, in the context of pain/struggling and how we process those experiences. At a certain point, I just became amazed again at how things must have been before "the big oops" -- Adam and Eve had total communion with God, were innocent, and lived in perfect union with each other.
My roommate was saying how her sister loves being married, how it's so much better being able to be together all the time. It just brought to mind -- how amazing is it that Paul talks about the church being the Bride of Christ. How sad it is that such an incomprehensible existence, the kind Adam and Eve got a taste of, was broken -- how heartbreaking that must have been, to have been the ones who knew what they had and lost it. It makes so much sense -- the same way that a girl longs to finally be married, to finally be with her husband, in that same way we as Christians spend our days on earth with the underlying longing for our true Husband --
and yet how full of grace God is, that we are able to experience His transforming power on earth and, one day, complete restoration & redemption and new home.
*sigh*