07/01/2020
Let's start at the beginning. In the beginning was God, nothing else. just God filled to brimming over with love and life. In fact, He was so filled with all this love and life that He could no longer hold it in. He had to let it come out. Have you ever felt like that? So filled with life, joy energy, excitement, love that you couldn't hold it in any longer. So what did you do? Chances are the first point of outlet for all that was your mouth. You had to squeal, shout, say something. Well, according to the first book in the Bible, Genesis, God wasn't a whole lot different. He opened His mouth and out of it began to flow all the pent up life and love. And when all that life and love got loose and got to work, behold, creation. It just naturally wanted to make something, something big, something beautiful, something that makes all that love and life visible, something to knock your eyes out.
Among the millions of shinning little things filling up that open space, he makes what we call a world. Included in this "world" is a source of energy, heat and light, surrounded be very meticulously placed planets. Among those planets, at precisely the right spot, He places the earth, carefully arranged to get exactly the right amount of heat, light and all the other chemical, biological, physical and environment elements to provide the perfect place for the most precious thing He has to let loose, not just any old life, but His life, just the way it was inside of Him. The further He went with this creation, the more excited and remarkably creative He got. Until, finally He got close to completion. He needed to come up with a creature that would have the same excitement, the same joy, the same love that He had when He looked at what He had created and thought, "That's Good." He needed a creature that could be His personal representative, perhaps even look and act a bit like Him in the midst of all this creation, to be on site to help Him to keep it "Good." So with great care He scooped up a big handful of all the materials He had made the creation out of (dirt) and began to form it, ever so carefully, with His own hands, into a human being. The more He formed, the more of His own loving perfection He put into this special human creature. When all the incredibly delicate, perfectly balanced systems that made up this human creature were done to His liking, He breathed a last full measure of His love into it's nostrils and behold, it sprang to life. In utter delight, God looked on His human creature in the midst of all His creation and said, "It is VERY GOOD!"
Then I turned on the TV news, scratched my head vigorously and said, "What on earth happened?" More to come.
