These past two days, the opening reading of the liturgy retells the creation story. Everything came to be by the Word of God, who was made flesh and dwelt among us. All that God made God proclaimed "good." You and I are part of that creation. Every day God calls us into being, out of darkness into the light. Every day God says to us: "Be fruitful; multiply the good I have created in you and will create through you.
At the origins of creation, God brought order out of chaos, form out of formlessness. God set boundaries, separating the water from the dry lands, calling the dry lands earth and the water the seas. God transformed the barrenness of the earth, of the sea, and of the sky, filling the sea with swimming creatures, the sky with winged birds and the earth with a multitude of seed-bearing fruit, vegetation, animals and creeping things. And God saw that it was good. The crown of God's creation is humankind made in God's own image and likeness and God saw that this creation was also good! And every morning God recreate all of it, reorders the chaos we have created and brings light into the darkness of our minds and lives.
How great is the Lord our God over all the earth and over all the gods we have created and idolized and worshipped! Lord have mercy!
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