commitment whether it’s convenient or not. The story of the first man and woman helps us understand this. When God sees and laments Adam’s aloneness and decides to make a woman for him, he doesn’t move directly from decision to action. He hesitates. He orchestrates an interruption. He assigns Adam a task—a huge, intricate, unwieldy task, a task that, although it’s narrated in a single line, may have taken days, weeks, or months to fulfill. God has Adam name all earth’s creatures: giraffes, squids,