Princess Diana or Hillary Clinton?

Everyone is familiar with the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Genesis 1: 27-28 says “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea…” birds, and every living thing God in effect giving man a mission statement. We know specifically that God first created man, and then seeing that “…It is not good that the man should be alone…”, God proceeded to make a “help meet” for him (Genesis 2). Implicit in this we see that God created woman for COMPANIONSHIP AND HELP OR SUPPORT for man. In Genesis 2: 21-25, we know that God created Eve out of the rib he took from Adam after he had “caused a deep sleep to fall upon him” implying again that only in woman is man COMPLETE.
They were as Adam declared “bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh…and they shall be one flesh…And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” again suggesting the INTIMACY, SEXUAL AND EMOTIONAL UNION and SOLIDARITY that God intended between man and woman. These verses also suggest than man would be a COVERING for woman and vice versa and that in each other would their DESTINIES be fulfilled. I would not bother recounting the story of man’s fall recounted in Genesis 3, as that is not the focus of this write-up. Suffice to note that both man and woman failed this first and critical spiritual test. The story however reminds us that the enemy will always seek to penetrate the relationship between man and woman through the more vulnerable or naïve of the two.
After the fall Adam and Eve continued their (now) mortal existence outside the garden of Eden, and the indirect Biblical evidence is that Eve for the rest of her relationship with Adam succeeded in her multiple roles-conception, co-habitation, comfort, help, completeness, covering and consummation of destiny enabling Adam to live to a ripe old age of 930 years (Genesis 5:5). There are other Biblical stories that till this day provide insight into the possibilities of relationships between man and woman. Sarah and Abraham-proceeding from an initial error (giving Hagar, her servant to Abraham as wife, but eventually fulfilling the vision (Genesis 21:5). In the story of David and Bathsheba (and Uriah) (2 Samuel 11-12), we see how adultery, lying, oppression and eventually murder can result from complex relationships between men and women. From Uriah’s point of view, we also see how a man can lose his life because of a cheating lover.
The story of Samson and Delilah (Judges 16) also contains eternal wisdom. Samson’s only weakness was his love for women, and his enemies, the Philistines, having failed in every other stratagem, successfully penetrated Samson’s household by getting Delilah to seek out and reveal his secrets to his enemies. It is interesting that in spite of several previous attempts which revealed Delilah’s evil intent (verses 7-9; 10-12; and 13-14), Samson eventually (verse 17) revealed his strength to her, and through her to his enemies, reminding us that a woman would always have the ability to destroy her lover, and sometimes vice versa. What does all this have to do with Princess Diana or Hillary Clinton? Both were famous women, married to very important men, and known all over the world. But they were very different in important ways, and with severely divergent consequences.
Diana was the young, pretty and adorable bride of Prince Charles, at the time probably the most eligible bachelor in the world. She was not highly educated, but had an appearance of innocence that the world loved. She was however, as it later emerged not very wise, even though highly manipulative. When she experienced problems in her marriage, she appears to have turned to other men and eventually was divorced from her husband. Her lovers included Asian cricketers, doctors and eventually an Egyptian Moslem, Dodi El-Fayed with whom she died in a tragic car accident in Paris. Hillary Clinton on the other hand was married to Bill Clinton. Both Bill and Hillary were brilliant lawyers, and when Bill became Governor of Arkansas, she continued in private legal practice. Eventually with Hillary’s strong support and encouragement, Bill became President of America and Hillary the First Lady. The Monica Lewinsky scandal almost destroyed Clinton and Hillary held Bill Clinton’s destiny in her hand. If she turned against him, his Presidency was likely to be irredeemably damaged. Fortunately Hillary saw the bigger picture. She decided to fight the “vast right wing conspiracy” that sought to destroy her husband, and even though she was mad at Bill, she understood that their destinies, not just his, were at stake.
While Diana lies dead in her grave, her husband has married Camilla his long time lover, and may yet become King of England. Hillary on the other hand, became Senator from New York, almost became Democratic Presidential Candidate, losing very narrowly to Barack Obama, and is now US Secretary of State. While Hillary understood her God-given role, to help her husband fulfil his destiny and therein fulfil hers as well, Diana did not and trifled with it. She did not understand her great and historical role, as Princess, Queen, Queen Mother and in the Church of England.