ADAM'S PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS - Stocki's Advent Monologues #1

(In 1996 I wrote a series of Advent monologues in which I attempted to take an audience through the Advent story. What perhaps was unusual about my series was that I started in the Old Testament. Here is an attempt to see the story of the baby in straw as far back as the garden Of Eden. What did Adam think about Advent?)

GENESIS 3

 

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.
¹⁵ And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspringand hers;
he will crush your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”

My name is Adam

Look at the state of me

Naked

Guilty

Alienated from the world

Alienated from my wife

And myself

Alienated from my Creator

It wasn’t always like this

Oh no, I had it all

More than any of you ever had.

More than anyone ever, ever had

A garden

THE garden

Such an inheritance

Everything

Everything that a human being could ask for

And a relationship with the One who made it and me

The purest human to God relationship that there ever has been

God walked with me in the garden

But we, myself and the companion God gave me,

Thought we knew better

We didn’t need God and God’s ways

We could be like God ourselves

We could make our own decisions

Independence!

That was our cry.

So we reached to be more than we were

And ended up less than we were

We took our chance

For a just the taste of a piece of fruit

Sweet the bite

But bitter the taste in my soul

We were lied to

Decieved

You won’t surely die

Lied to

Deceived

For a piece of fruit

Naked

Guilty

Hopeless

Damned

Yet, clinging to some words that we heard our maker say,

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heal.”