THE BEGINNING
God made the heavens and earth,
But they were without shape.
His Spirit hovered over its waters,
And darkness covered the landscape.
He then said “Let there be light.”
And immediately there was brightness.
He saw that it was good,
And divided it from the darkness.
Jehovah called the light “day”
And “morning” the day’s beginning.
He called the darkness “night.”
The first “day” had occurred by evening.
God ordered the waters to part,
At His word, they would obey.
The waters above were called “sky,”
On this, the second day.
He gathered the waters below the sky,
On the third day and at His command.
The waters he called “seas,”
And the dry ground He called “land.”
“Let there be vegetation” He said,
“Plants and trees with seed-bearing fruit,
All according to their various kinds.”
On the third day food took root.
Then God said “Let there be lights,”
To mark days, years, and seasons.
The lights will separate night from day;
Genesis tells us the reasons.
God then hung the moon,
And the greater light He named “sun.”
The stars were scattered across the heavens,
On the fourth day His work was not done.
On the fifth day of earth’s creation,
God made the creatures in the sea.
He made the birds of the air,
At His word they came to be.
“Let there be living creatures,” He said,
Each after its own class.
Both wild and tame animals,
And creatures that move in the grass.
On the sixth day God made man.
He made him from the dust of the ground.
He breathed his Spirit into him,
But no helpmate was yet to be found.
So Adam was placed in a very deep sleep,
And one of his ribs was removed.
Eve was formed from the rib;
When he saw her, no doubt he approved.
“Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called wo-man.”
Adam called her gender by this,
“For she was taken from man.”
And so by the end of the sixth day,
Creation was complete.
On the seventh day God rested;
He’d accomplished quite a feat.
Genesis means “the beginning;”
Of earth and heaven’s birth.
Even then the end was written;
There’ll be a new heaven and earth.
Becky Wall
