Week 4 Story: My Husband, the Drunk

Noah's wife looked on with pity, watching her husband drink from the vine so hopelessly as if there were no tomorrow coming. He used to be so noble, so faithful, so pious, she thought to herself as she questioned what had driven him to do such a despicable thing. It was almost as if he had been making a deal with the devil, and that was what she found to be the most upsetting of all.

The field of vines in which Noah was spending much

of his time during this curse of drunkenness that he 

had fallen victim to. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Suddenly, she saw something that caught her completely off guard. Some strange man had appeared in the fields with her husband that she didn't recognize at all. Suddenly she began to see her husband slay random animals that approached him in the field, becoming so crazed by his drunkenness that he couldn't separate what was right and what was wrong in the slightest. She thought back on the days of their ancestors, Adam and Eve, and it brought her great pain to see what was unfolding. Determined to help her husband realize the harm in what he was doing, she sat down to write her once beloved husband a letter, pleading with him to turn from these new ways.

          My dearest Noah,
          It brings me great pain to watch you do this to yourself. You are such a devout and faithful man
          to our Lord that we have see bring us through great pain and it troubles me greatly to see you
          stray from the path that he would want for you. I know that this is not who you are. I know you
          are still the man that I have always loved so I want to remind you of what we have been called
         to do and of the fact that what you are doing is similar to what our ancestors, Adam and Eve,
         also did during their time in the garden. Remember how Adam thought that he knew better than
         our God and so he took it upon himself to eat of the fruit and drink of the vine that he was
         ordered specifically not to? How is this any different?

        I love you and it is for this reason that I write these words to you. Please repent from these evil
        ways and turn back to the man I know you are. This isn't you.

                                                  Sincerely,
                                                         Your loving wife

Satisfied with her work, Noah's wife set the pen down and made sure to plant the note in her husband's skins that he wore most often when he went out. She could only hope and pray that this was going to work. She needed her husband back and she wanted nothing more than for this curse of the drunkenness to be over.

Author's Note

For this piece, I focused it on the section of the story of Noah titled The Curse of Drunkenness where Noah strays from the things he had done to find favor in the eyes of God and instead sided with the devil and fell victim to drunkenness. However, I wrote it from the perspective of Noah's wife instead. I thought this would be effective to explain the pain of watching someone that you love go through something like that and wanting to help them as much as you can. I also thought this perspective was helpful to the way that I wanted to go with my final project because I am leaning toward doing biblical love stories and this is a perspective that isn't considered often at all. 

Bibliography: 

Luis Ginzberg's The Story of Noah