1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.…
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In the beginning
In the beginning there was God, and no explanation is given, but rather just a state of affairs that we are invited to experience.
And God created - that is he brought into being something which had not existed.
God created everything, both what is unseen (the heavens) and what is seen (the earth).
All was not completely satisfactory in four different ways.
the earth was formless
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…Genesis 1: Creation summary:
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* God speaks words of permission: “Let there be ….”
* What God permits then occurs “And there was …” “And it was so”
* God separates - and makes things different and distinct
* God gives names to what is created so that they can be part of our lives
* God sees that creation is good
* Creation follows a rhythm :”there was evening and there was…So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)James Finley says:
This is a paraphrase of Meister Eckhart: Imagine you’re standing before a full-length mirror, and imagine the image…
moreHeavenly Father, give me grace to finish the work that I have been doing and rest for one day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
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2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had…Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of life-giving water in all its forms: mist, rain and rivers.
* Thank you too that “back in the day” you gave us the breath of life - that which makes us humans conscious living beings.4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[…
morePrayer: Heavenly Father,
* give grace to those we know who are married to be at one with each other.
* give grace to those we know who seek to be married to discern who it is right for them to marry
* give grace and comfort to those we know whose marriages ended in separation, divorce or death
* today and everyday18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had…
moreBut for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said,
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