Thoughts on Havah

I read a lot. I love reading. I love how books entertain, teach, and open your mind about new ideas. Sometimes, books just occupy my mind when I have to stay still for awhile. Occasionally, I'll come across a book that just makes me start to view something differently. I'm usually grateful.

I recently read Havah by Tosca Lee. It is the fictional story of Eve. Like most Christians, I've heard this story from the bible many times. I have recently gained more insight to Eve, so the idea of this book intrigued me. The book itself wasn't exactly overly fantastic. I thought the speech to be to flowery with big words thrown in to prove the author knows big words. I could see how this would fit in the book's topic, but I thought it was a little much for me. For a Christian book, it was also a little sensual. Again, I think it fit, just not what I'm used to reading. The majority of the book was also quite depressing. Those things aside, it was fascinating to think of how it could have been for her. To put real, human emotions with the story. Hopes, dreams, expectations, fears, misunderstandings, failings, longings.

The thing that changed my mindset most, wasn't the characters or description of Eden or how they forged their way in an unknown world with only each other, but the realization of just how much it means to be reconciled to God. In this book, Adam and Havah take the words of God when he is kicking them out of the garden to mean that they will have a son who will lead them back to the garden, and make everything right again by destroying the serpent. The majority of the book is her longing to be made right again and everything in the world to be made right again as well.

I've been a Christian for awhile, and I tend to forget how monumental this is. I've been made right with the One Who Is. It's a BIG deal!!!! But the world hasn't been reconciled yet. And still, I cling to this world. I pray every night, thanking God for my life, my husband, and my daughter, and I ask for the three of us to have another day together. Because you never know when it will be the last. But I think when the world is reconciled, I'll be amazed that I ever prayed that, clinging to this faulty life, when we were meant for so much MORE.

Also, and I know I harp on this a lot. Let me pause for a side note. I harp on this because before my husband accepted Christ, he saw no need for a savior. He hadn't done anything terrible. Why would he need to be forgiven? I wonder if Adam and Eve, when thinking about people with this belief say, "Oh yeah? You think your ok? All we did was eat an apple??!!!" I'm just saying.