THE PASSION OF NEW EVE (Or, I Am the Last of the Famous International Playboys): I also ended up thinking about the story of Eve’s creation. We have two creation narratives: God creates all humankind in His image; and God creates male and female. And female comes second. That sucks, right?

Like it did for Jacob and David.

Second children, last children–these are the ones God fixes upon, again and again. Is Eve yet another youngest son? Is His whole point that family placement is overturned, because the humble will be exalted and the exalted humbled?

I think this is likely more valid than the priest=Mary thing I’m about to post, in part because this fits in with Mary as second Eve. All the weight of the Incarnation is placed on Mary–not on Joseph; he’s called to accept the fait accompli. Mary’s choice has weight, I believe, at least in part because Eve’s did. The littlest one’s voice can save the world or throw it down. God does this again and again. It’s almost as if He were making a point….