Does God shop in the produce aisle?

Jenny and I went to the grocery store today. It was a depressing experience. Depressing for Jenny, because she just plain hates grocery shopping, and depressing for me because of far different reasons.

In Genesis 3, shortly after Adam and Eve have listened to the serpent, and eaten from the tree, God "curses" them saying this:

"To the woman he said, 'I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'

To Adam he said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'you must not eat of it,' Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Genesis 3:16-19

For those of you who don't always like the way the Bible describes things, I'll translate/paraphrase this for you, in my own words.

People sinned. God is telling us what the results of this sin will be. To women, he says, you are going to experience great pains when you give birth. To men he says, you are going to work hard and long, and this work will never produce for you the fulfillment that you seek.

It is clear to me, how many of the differences between man and women have come to us because of these curses. Do you wonder why men are always trying to be seen as successful? God said it was our nature to do so. Women have the apparent purpose (when looking at their bodies) of creating children, while men's apparent purpose (when looking at our bodies) is hard to find. We are groomed to work, to provide, and have been cursed to do this with less effectiveness than we would have hoped.

That struck me today in the grocery store, as Jenny and I shopped, and thought about little else than "I'm unemployed." The money that will come from my labor is currently non-existent. Depression and failure were immanent emotional responses. Some of this in unhealthy ways (as I know my choice to resign from my job was out of a desire to follow God's instructions for my life) and some of it in a healthy way (I will never be the adequate provider of this relationship, I will always toil and come up short).

Only God will be able to adequately provide for Jenny, and for myself. I am and will be instructed to work, and toil for those provisions as well, but ultimately, my life design does not enable me to provide all necessary things for our family. God must be the center. That was real to me in the produce aisle today. It isn't always real to me. It is easy to lose focus of.