Sowing in Tears

Sowing in Tears

Inspiration for the Song

Adam and Eve’s rejection of God caused them to lose the certainty of the image of God that they were created in.

The life of God that once pulsated through their being was replaced with the bitter poison of sin, selfishness, and self-reliance.

Everything that they had originally experienced as good and as gift was now experienced as tainted and distorted.

The masculinity and femininity of the man and woman that had originally united them in a beautiful person-affirming communion had now become a source of division, a misused vehicle for domination, possession, and retaliation.

“After the breaking of the original covenant with God, man and woman did not find themselves united with each other, but rather more divided or even set against each other,” wrote blessed John Paul II (TOB 30:5).

“From the moment in which the man ‘dominates’ [the woman], the communion of persons—which consists in the spiritual unity of the two subjects who [give] themselves to each other—is replaced by a different mutual relationship, namely by a relationship of possession of the other as an object of one’s own desire” (TOB 31:3).

The man and the woman who had been created by God to love one another in a deep personal communion now experience the destructive power of sin in the disorder of their relationship with one another.

Even in this dark hour of humanity, God does not forsake his hurting children. The woman is promised that One will come from her seed who will make war with the vile serpent, the deceiver of human kind. Jesus of Nazareth, the seed of Eve, fulfills this ancient promise. He is the one who makes all things new (Rev 21:5). He is the one who reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme vocation clear (GS 22.1).

Because of Adam’s sin, fallen humans sow in tears. But because of Christ who conquers the serpent, all shall reap with shouts of joy!

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