Tuesday of
the 29th Week of Ordinary Time
I’ve read some truly thought provoking
interpretations of this passage.
What was it that “fell” in the “Fall”? A Girardian read suggests that the Adamic Fall portrays the fall of desire
rather than the fall of human nature itself.
And the cool thing is that, with the help of grace, my fallen desire can
be re-oriented to its proper/original/eden-esque object…which is God.
The fruit of this interpretation is that it
redeems desire. Desire is good. Desire is a part of what makes us human. And it is the holy use of our freedom that
will cooperate with grace and orient our desire toward that first, life-giving,
capital -O-,Other. God’s way of loving, given human flesh in
Jesus, gives us a model to imitate.
Desire is imitative. We catch
it. Best to catch it from the best of
models. The alternative is a legion of
small -o-, others.
Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. God even uses our sin in our favor…is it because sin is a good place to find desire that needs re-orienting? What wondrous love---never giving-up---love!
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