Then the Lord Made a Woman

I’d have loved to have been a spectator when Adam woke from his deep sleep one Creation morning and opened his eyes on the vision of loveliness that was Eve. I’m sure he thought it was well worth sacrificing a rib to have such a “just right” companion: co-heir of life, partner in caring for all that God had created, and a complementary person made—just like himself—in the image of God, someone to share in the face-to-face conversations with God as they walked in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the evening… 

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