Fr. Mike Schmitz

I just got to watch them play the Atari.

But next to the TV that they had the Atari hooked up to was a plaque that my mom had just put there.

And the plaque had these words.

It said, when God took Eve from Adam, he did not take her from his head to lord it over him, nor from his foot to be walked upon by him.

He took her from his side to walk with him, from beneath his arm to be guarded by him and from near his heart to be loved by him.

And it just, it's so powerful, right?

When God took Eve from Adam, he did not take her from his head to lord it over him, nor from his foot to be walked upon by him, but from his side to walk with him, from beneath his arm to be guarded by him, from near his heart to be loved by him.

And so that's what we see in Genesis 2, is he looks at Eve and says, this one at last is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh, this one.

is the reason why men leave their father and mother and cling to their bride.

And then those key words that John Paul II said is the mystery, the key description we can't even begin to understand.

And the man and woman were naked and yet they felt no shame.

Why?

Because God, when he made this world, he made it absolutely good.

And that's what I want to leave you with today.

that here's the story of creation.

Here's the story of God's goodness.

Every day of creation is good, good, good.

Day six is very good.

The world that God made because he's good is good.

Tomorrow, we're going to find out what happened to this world because we live in a good world still, but we're going to discover that we live in a good world that has gone wrong, a good world that has been broken.