Wisdom from Dr. Scott Hahn

What does Adam say? “The woman…” He has already begun to pass the buck. Not, “Yes I ate.” It’s almost as though the Lord was trying to coax an admission out of him. But Adam doesn’t stop there because then he adds: “The woman whom you gave to be with me. Some helper she turned out to be!” The blame game enters in the second inning. First we blame our spouse, who just doesn’t understand. Then we blame God, who gave us our heredity, our environment, our spouse, our parents, our siblings, and so much else. And usually we never even bother to tell ourselves what we’re doing. It’s almost subsconscious. We blame God and never really even tell God that’s what we’re doing because we don’t really fear offending God our Father; we fear getting caught because we fear the punishment.

—DR. SCOTT HAHN from Lord Have Mercy