After Adam and Eve ate fruit from the Tree of Life, as bidden by the serpent, what happened next? Lots of not so great things: women were doomed to suffer in childbirth and men were forced to toil for their living. Innocence no longer existed in the world and the two sexes stopped coexisting peacefully because of all of the shaming and blaming that went on. And of course, God booted both out of the Garden of Eden to live miserable, conflicted lives for the rest of eternity.
So--who had to carry the guilt for of all of this? The serpent's daughter, that's who. So much blame handed down from her parents, what a thing to have to bear! She carries the Tree of Life, upside down now, within her, holding her mother and father in each hand as she walks, giving them a good shake every now and then, letting them know of her disappointment and frustration.
What child doesn't carry her parents woes!? Great post momma.
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