Created and Blessed

Male and Female.

Created by God.

Blessed.

Let us not forget this.

Loving Again

I can't imagine what it is like to have lost a child. To have one that you nurtured and loved so deeply torn from you. What joy the birth of Seth must have brought to Eve. Not in that he was a replacement for Abel but in that she found herself to still have the capacity for love. What a blessing it is that even in the shadow of loss, we can still love!

Same Kind of Different

Eve had now given birth to her second son. Like most mothers, I'm sure she appreciated how different her children were. Was it their natural bent that set them on the path of Cain working the ground and Abel raising the flock or was it simply out of necessity? Two sons, same parents, different.

Creating

Finally, we read how Adam and Eve have gotten around to the business of being fruitful and multiplying. Yet, because of sin, all Eve can think about is how she's become like God. We should rejoice not when we see the fruits of our sin realize, but when we see the fruit of what we were creat d for realized.