In the Beginning, there was Beauty
no one knows how it began or
when exactly
it just
Was
Beauty Was
And God who is All Things
God who is Mother Father Child Goodness
Young Old All Things Living
God created
God worked with Hands and Womb
with Stuff
and formed trees and birds and
animals and rocks and plains
sun moon and sky and water
and said
WOW
Then God chuckled as if amused by
a secret
and She took earth-- damp dirt
with grass and minerals
and made a man and made a
woman
they were created
connected
they knew intinctively
that they needed each other
whole in themselves
but so much more
abundant
together
and they were naked
but it didn't matter
because it was all Good
it all so very Good
they made love and they giggled
they danced and they ate
they swam in the ocean
and brushed against fishy scaley things
that tickled their toes
they climbed trees
built things, opened their mouths
to taste the rain
and every day they said,
"thank you" to the God who created
it all...
they ate fruit and vegtables of the
garden naming them as they went
and it was good, it was all so very
Good
God smiled and God laughed at their
frivolity
and like any good parent
God ached for them
knowing that the gates were open
and one day they'd walk through them
and the rest of the world
would be theirs
and with it would come
heartache and sorrow
opprtunities to try and fail
and try again
God hoped they would remember
where they came from
that they would carry this beauty
with them
draw strength from the magnificence
of their creation
and grow
Grow...
it was a risk God
was willing to take
to give them the fullness
of Life....
So, for now, God said
Dance
and never forget
the music out of which
you
were born....
