27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God did not Create us to be Independent

In today's first reading we hear the second creation story (found in Genesis chapter 2), where God creates the man and places him in a beautiful garden surrounded by everything he could possibly need. Yet something was not right. The man was alone. Out of God's merciful love, God responded to the man's need and created for him a helpmate: woman. The story helps us to see the Truth that God did not create us for independence but rather to for dependence: on God and on another. This is why he gives us the great gift of marriage.