Seven. A crow, a woodpecker, and at least five other birds interrupted my quiet yesterday with declarations that they too made it through the winter. Does it mean youth is fading when you start counting bird calls? Beginnings and the number seven and color exploding from broken and tangled limbs...it all made me want to study Genesis.
"In the beginning God..."- The great human saga had a point of initiation. There was an act that kicked off time and the initiator was God.
Kings and peasants, politicians and scientists, no-names and big names, artists and musicians have spent  millennials arguing for and against Him. No matter,
"Before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God." Psalm 90:2
Knowing and believing the truth of this verse, must start at the beginning.