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By Sally Lloyd-Jones, Illustrations by Jago
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And it wasn't a dream: It was a nightmare.
A dove flew from Adam's hand. A deer darted in a thicket. It was as if they were frightened by something. A chill was in the air. Something strange was happening. They had always been naked — but now they felt naked, and wrong, and they didn't want anyone to see them. So they hid. Later that evening, as God was taking his walk, he called to them. "Children?"
Usually Adam and Eve loved to hear God's voice and would run to him. But this time, they ran away from him and hid in the shadows.
"Where are you?" God called.
"Hiding," Adam said. "We're afraid of you."
"Did you eat the fruit I told you not to eat?" God asked them.
Adam said, "Eve made me do it!"
"What have you done?" God asked.
Eve said, "The serpent made me do it!"
And terrible pain came into God's heart. His children hadn't just broken one rule; they had broken God's heart. They had broken their wonderful relationship with him. And now he knew everything else would break. God's creation would start to unravel, and come undone, and go wrong. From now on everything would die — even though it was all supposed to last forever.
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