Beginning

The voice of the Lord is over the waters

                               - Psalm 29:3




I begin with the premise that there is a God.

In the beginning: we start all over,
Where every good book must begin,
Not “at” or “from” or “once upon,” but IN.

This is the story, the truth of God,
And here is the first thing we ought to know:
There is no moment where God did not exist.

God is the beginning, the action, the whole creation;
There can be no single point at which or from which
God the great I AM began to be.  

God is in the beginning, and God is 
In the present and in the ever after, 
Not “to,” “until” or “of a time,” but IN.

And notice: as it was in the beginning
Is in our premise now, as it was
In the days of Adam and in the days of Jesus,

Now is the spark of our creation,
And now the start of our salvation: 
God is in our birth and in our redemption,

The beginning of being and the stretch of eternity,
The breath of our formation and our resurrection,
All at once, our first day and our seventh day.

Evolutionists may stumble over the number of days,
Skeptics might question the progression of things,
But believers believe in the beginning,

And those who believe will know
The same beginning can continue
From chapter to chapter, can be on every page:

God, who is, can be in our every hour,
Can breathe and beat with us forever,
Part of the conversation and in our endless prayer.

This is the premise I begin with:
And God said, and God saw what God created, 
And it was good.  Another day.

May God be in your days 
In the beginning of 2015 and 
Throughout the year, every day.


simul-posted on my running blog for 2015: Confluence