Original Blessing: Why Separation Was Never a Sin

Felix Culpa, Birth Trauma, and Eden as Psychological Fact

Last week, I wrote about your wound as a womb, one that births your greatest gift.

But I left something out.

I didn’t explain what the fracture is, why everyone has one, and why suffering creates capacity for wisdom.

Medieval Christians understood this process as felix culpa—the happy fault. Adam’s Fall, not from grace, but as grace. It’s the only thing th…