In the Beginning

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Genesis
Is the first word
In the Hebrew text,
And given the name in the Hebrew as bereshith.

Genesis is a book of firsts,
As it records the births
Of earth’s beginnings.
It is poetry in motion
Of immeasurable proportions.

Genesis records the beginning of life on earth.
The birth of time.
The word, Genesis
Means - origin, source,
Creation of coming into being of something.
It is the coming into being by God,
Of God,
For God,
With God,
As God.
Everything
Being part of and in God.

It a documentation and revelation
Of earth’s history.
Of man and his kind,
As drawn from God’s mind.

It is the beginning story
Of that which exists in our midst.
Of all that our life consists.

It is the seed of life planted.
Life granted
To this earth land.
And given to God’s created man.

In the Genesis beginning
Of the formation,
The creation
Of the heavens and the earth,
Almighty God
Stepped out into the deep
Where He called forth its birth.
He fashioned and formed
An area shadowed
In a darkened space.
And empty waste.
Without face,
Or formalized place.

The Spirit of mighty God
Moved and hovered over the waters.
He stepped out into the wilderness of darkness,
And spoke
To life
And said,
“ Light! Come! Awake!
And see!
Come forth!
And be!
A rendering of Me!"

And light came.

God saw this illuminated sight
And He said of it,
“This is good indeed!
I have planted my first seed!"

Mighty God set onward
To separate the light from the darkness.

He spoke to the light,
“You shall be ‘ the day.'"
To the darkness,
He said to it,
“You shall be called ‘night.’”

It was now made known
The daylight to nightlight of the first day.

After which, God looked to His Head
And said,
“Let there now come into being
A firmament on high
The expanse of the sky
In the midst of the waters
And let it separate the waters down below
From the waters above.”

And it was done accordingly.

God called where the firmament lay
By the name -
“The Heavens.”
Having come into the light of the second day.

He then looked about the waters
Under the heavens gate,
And he collected them
Into one standing place.
And as with a quick motion of his painter’s hand,
He called out to the dry land
To appear in the role of “the Earth.”
He accumulated and assimilated
The waters round and about
And placed them in the picture
As “the Seas.”

God sat back a minute
And surveyed
What He had created
Thus far
Admiring His knitting,
And thought it perfectly fitting.
He was quite satisfied with His design
And so continued
Creating out of His mind
To bring the earth into a fruitful vineyard,
Composing fields to yield
Tender vegetation with its seedlings.
Heeding God’s beseeching
To further carry on
The process of regeneration, rejuvenation,
restoration and procreation
Where each tree would formulate its own seeds
Inborn to repopulate
The earth continuous new birth
From time on.

It was God’s handiwork
Being executed.
To give life in abundance
According to the riches of His glory.
He saw that it was a good and splendid
Foretelling of a grand ole story
And He was glad in it.

After this the third day
Of preparation
And manifestation -

God fixed His eyes on the firmament,
The expanse of the heavens,
To separate the day from night.
So He cast into the framework
In the expanse of the sky
Lights on high
To be as signs and tokens
Of the significant events
In portraying the mark of God’s providence.
A testament to
God’s omnipotent magnificence
In the universal sphere
Here
Where
The seasons of the years,
The days of life spent,
And the eons of times,
Are guided by the lights
In the heavens upon the earth’s orbiting rotation
Within and around the globes
Of the two great lights -
The sun beam and the moon gleam.
So placed
To rule
The day and nights
In the order of their appearance and adherence
To the laws set forth
In the firmament of the heavens,
For earth’s enlightenment
And times spent.

God was pleased with the life being born
This work was hailed with good and well done.
Having been completed as the fourth day’s event.
When the night was separated from the day.

On the fifth day,
God rose up to speak to the waters.
He called forth into their midst
An abundance of living creatures.
He formed birds to fly in the sky
With wings outstretched in every direction,
In every likeness and kind.
From the intellect and imagination of the Creator’s Mind.
He created great and abounding sea monsters.
And every kind of living creature of the waters.
To move within the realm of the oceans and seas,
Abounding with creatures of its kind and likeness,
With the resounding resonance of God’s blessings
Of fruitfulness and productiveness.
Therein
Giving them the order of duplication and multiplication,
To fill the waters in the seas.
He gave the fowls charge
To reproduce upon the earth of its kind
Throughout the land of time.

God was not done yet -
For He said next, on the sixth day,
“Let the earth bring forth living creatures
Of wild beasts and mammals
Domesticated animals
Livestock and game
Cattle, horses and sheep
Everything that crawls and creep
Every variety in animal society,
Every immensity and propensity,
In large and small proportion,
Every size, scale, scope and range,
In all shapes and degrees of being.”
As varied as those we are presently seeing.
And it was so
From the word go

Then God went on to say
On this the same sixth day,
Communing within Himself,
Being as He is,
The Father/Mother, The Christ, and the Holy Spirit
All in One,
“Let us make mankind -
Being male and female
As in Our Own image,
After Our likeness.
And Let us give them charge -
With complete authority,
As Our keepers and shepherds,
Our custodians, and guardians
Over all that We have created on the earth.
They shall be responsible as caretakers of this earth land
From the waters to the sands.
From sea to shining sea.
From the oceans to the valleys.
From the mountains to the prairies.
We bless them with fruitfulness and fullness of life,
Giving life,
Bringing into life
As man and wife.
As being life, to share in life, to enjoy life,
Having all the richness of an abundant life
To continue life’s existence and subsistence
Into the far-reaching time and distance -
As far as the east is from the west,
They are blest with
The best of Our best.”

God gave man and woman
Use to all the land’s resources
In the service of God and man.
He gave man charge to have dominion over all the fish in the seas,
The birds that fly across the sky.
Even the air we breathe.
Man was given dominion on every living creature
That moves upon the land.
Every plant yielding seed was given to man,
Every tree with seed in its fruit
Was given as his feed
Everything which there is
To be his.
The breath of his very life was given to man out of
The very mouth of God Almighty.
From God’s own womb,
From His own bearing,
Man was established in the finished work of bringing forth
All that earth was created to be.
All in the plan of, “the Great I Am He.”

God looked over His creation - His workmanship - “His tour de force”
And beheld its glory.
It was a beautiful sight to behold.
It was a wonderful Onederful completion to the sixth day
In the story of life to continuously unfold
From the days of old -
When the heavens and the earth
Were foretold,
Of all that dwell therein
When called forth to…
Begin.

God had completed His masterpiece,
Which He had done without cease.
He set it apart
As His own heart.
Belonging only to God,
Out of God’s own being.
He blest it -
Making it holy unto Himself.

After which,
On the seventh day,
As you can guess,
God took His rest.

This is God’s History story.
His story of His making, His crafting, His composing,
The creation of the heavens and the earth.
Having been given birth
In the day and time
When the Lord God
Ushered in
His life
As manifested on earth and the heavens.
When God set the stage to bring life
When God breathed His breath into life
When God spoke the words to life
When God cast the characters in life
When God performed the acts of life
When God penned the story called life
When God said, “Let there be life!”
When God said,
“Life! Begin!”

Amen!!!

The End
By Ruth

“The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works
(the entirety of things created)” Ps. 145.9