Life

sprouting, spreading

This is what stumps cynics...spontaneous life from non-living matter.
As the waters found their boundaries by the word of God...so life came into existence.
"Let the earth sprout..."
Just the right words at just the right time produced life to shelter and nurture more life.
It was good.
It was God.
 Dormancy birthed germination. Shoots of green leapt through the soil, turning the earth into a habitat.
 Words speaking life, and life producing more life.
I wish my life and words brought life all the time. But the truth is sometimes, even if unintentionally, my words have produced nothing of vibrancy or nourishment. Regret alone cannot reverse the damage of my words, death coming from the non-living places of my heart and right out of my mouth...or the keys of my keyboard.
But living from non-living...this is miraculous. And I ask God, "speak life...here, now. Please, produce spontaneous life from what my words have smothered."
Dormant soil in the hands of the Creator can still sprout something He can call "good",
something that nurtures
life...and stumps cynics.

⁹ And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth,^[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants^[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.¹² The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Like an artist gathering supplies, God made the heavens and the earth. It was all there. All of the particles that would bump and mingle to make His idea of creation a reality. The invisible was becoming visible. God set up shop and got to work. Bringing order to chaos, He made the raw materials then made the most wondrously complex system of life from them. The light rained down bringing heat, increasing energy and then He drew the water up and made the atmosphere. And this, God called "Heaven". An atmosphere suddenly surrounded a hydrosphere...a vapor encircled a watery, gravely globe. "He stretched out the heavens like a curtain" Is.40:22, providing a protection for the living to come. There was evening, there was morning- day 2.

"The height of the heavens should mind us of God's supremacy, and the infinite distance that is between us and him; the brightness of the heavens, and their purity, should mind us of his majesty, and perfect holiness; the vastness of the heavens, and their encompassing the earth, and influence upon it, should mind us of his immensity and universal providence." Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The more I dig into the grounds of my faith, the more I am convinced of the truth of it. Just as light "exploded into light", faith explodes into faith. I am not a scientist; but astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, physics (etc.) in and of themselves provide few conclusions.... only more questions. It is not science alone that proves or disproves God and creation...it is faith. It is where you find your beginning. My beginning is "in the beginning God"...from there I am amazed and overwhelmed 
at the proof of Him.

Clouds
Sinking to inverted rim
Fraying edges...
tearing free.
Revealing
rising
upward
onward
forever.
Arcing center
stretching
drawing
summoning,
me.

"Let there be light..." Gen. 1:2-5

Atoms gyrated, pulsed and pooled-
an incoherent pit.
Ingredients of life restrained,
and champing at the bit.
 Beneath the skin of darkness,
cells and systems waited word
while the stirring of His Spirit
 trained and fluttered like a bird.
"Let there be light"came thund'ring,
without ears to hear the clap
 Fingered filiments came spiraling
and pulled the darkness back.
Light exploded into light
as God sighed in delight
and placed the edge of darkness
 beside day
and called it "night".

"In the beginning God created..."

"In the beginning God created"- The initiation of time was God's act of creating. Before anything else, before everything else
 He was.
God is the pre-existant condition on which everything else hinges.
There was God
then...
then God created. 
He made what wasn't there before:
the heavens
and the earth.

The heavens and the earth traveled from the mind of God to become a vast universe that we only know in part.

This is one quality of God I really wish I had...to make ideas realities.
God had an idea.
God made it reality.
What was only in his mind was brought into physical existence...
Something to be seen
Something to be heard
Something to be touched, smelled, felt
of God.
All of these somethings a communication of His beauty, power, tenderness, goodness.
All of these somethings the pronouncement of His reality.
"In the beginning, God created..." Genesis 1:1