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.