Creation

Genesis 1 MSG

Heaven and Earth

First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

God spoke: "Light!"
And light appeared.
God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark.
God named the light Day,
he named the dark Night.
It was evening, it was morning—
Day One.
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters;
separate water from water!"
God made sky.
He separated the water under sky
from the water above sky.
And there it was:
he named sky the Heavens;
It was evening, it was morning—
Day Two.

God spoke: "Separate!
Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place;
Land, appear!"
And there it was.
God named the land Earth.
He named the pooled water Ocean.
God saw that it was good.

I painted the other day. It had been a while. I just got a hair up my nose and decided our upstairs bathroom needed a mural of a light house and crashing ocean waves on it...

So I got out some nice blue paint and some glaze medium and set off painting my mural- all free hand and all from my imagination. What I ended up with even surprised me. I leaned back after an hour and a half of painting chaos and examined my big blue mural. I was so proud. I MADE THAT! AND ITS GOOD!


I love reading the creation. You see GOD the Artist in all his splendor. He makes His masterpiece and looks at it and proclaims its greatness. Its like the ultimate trash talk... OH YEAH! I MADE THAT THING!!! AND IT ROCKS!!!

Every time I make something that's inspired I stop and pay homage to the Artist of artists. He made the earth and the seas and everything on it and in it. He made me, He knew me and loved me before I was born and He sacrificed all for me.

Thank you Artist-God for everything! YOU ROCK!