When Adam names his wife Eve, he calls her “the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). That name is given after the fall. Not before. After sin.After judgment.After exile. This matters. Because motherhood, from its very eginning, is bound up with both life and sorrow. Eve is not introduced to us as an idealized figure. She is the woman who listened, who saw, who took, who gave (Genesis 3:6). Through her—and Adam—sin entered the human story. And yet…so did redemption. She i