What a week! It started out busy and only got busier.

It was the first day and God was making the heavens and the earth. It was a complicated process, not as magical has you may have been led to believe. There’s no short-cuts and no substitute for hard work. At one crucial point in the multi-step process God said, “There will be light!” And brightness rose slowly throughout the unfinished earth and it was good, so good. Then the divine architect tweaked the light by adding darkness and separated the two. “I will call the light ‘Day’ and I’ll call the darkness ‘Night.'” And so there was a morning and there was an evening. God looked at his finished creations and was very pleased.

He had an idea and He called it Sky. God gave Sky something to do, Sky’s purpose is to divide the waters from above and below. It’s a tricky bit of engineering and it took all of the morning and all of the evening to get it right. Finally God looked at it and said, “It is good.” Sky was able to join the other two completed creations; Day and Night.

At this point the unfinished earth was exhausted. She patiently waited for a little help with all the H20 swooshing around her. God saw her heavy burden and said “Let dry land appear!” With the dry land supporting the water, God decided dry land should get the name of Earth, and water could be called the Seas. And that’s not all – God had a gift for Earth. He gave her plants and trees, all with their own seeds and unique fruits. Oh how clever! God was again very pleased. Now Sky, Day, and Night, welcomed Earth and Seas to God’s growing family.

God was noodling the whole light-Day relationship. Light was capable of so much more. He wanted light to mark the seasons, and the years. Day could still be Day, but with a stroke of genius, God thought to give Day the Sun and complemented it nicely by giving Night the Moon. Plus, in a beautiful gesture, He gave the Night stars, which he placed in the heavens to shine upon Earth...READ MORE