And it was good...

Today's Reading: Genesis 1:1-13

Today we start The Story. It is God's Story. It is our story. It is my story. And it is your story. It is the story of a God who created a perfect world for his perfect creation to live in. It is the story of God's ever-present desire to live in harmony with us. It is the story of the great lengths he will go to make that happen.

"In the beginning..."

Can you imagine what it must have been like? On the first three days, he created heaven and earth, separated light from darkness, separated the waters, caused dry ground to appear, and then added all kinds of vegetation to populate the land.

And it was good.

Can you imagine the care he must have taken to create something worthy of his calling it good? How much thought and love he must have poured into it. How he must have imagined the finished product as he carefully crafted each component of the perfect world.

Allow yourself to bask in this opening scene as The Story begins. Let your heart be tendered towards the father of all creation as he begins this journey. Picture in your mind's eye how beautiful it all must have been.

And it was good.

- Holly Barrett