Word

1

I begin with the premise that there is a God.

In the beginning: we start all over,
Where every good book must begin,
And not with “at” or “from” or “once upon,” but IN.
This is the story, the truth of God,
And here is the first thing we ought to know:
There is no moment where God did not exist.

God is the beginning, the action, the whole creation;
There can be no single point at which or from which
God the great I AM began to be.  God was 
In the beginning, as God is 
In the present and in the ever after, 
Not “to,” “until” or “of a time,” but IN.

And notice: it is the same beginning
In the days of Adam as in the days of Jesus.
Now is the spark of our creation,
And now the start of our salvation: 
God is in our birth and in our redemption,
The beginning of being and the stretch of eternity,
The breath of our formation and our resurrection,
All at once, our first day and our seventh day.

Evolutionists may stumble over the number of days,
Skeptics might question the progression of things,
But those who believe in this beginning
Know the same beginning can continue
From chapter to chapter, can be on every page:
God, who is, can be in our every hour,
Can breathe and beat with us forever,
Part of the conversation and in our endless prayer.

This is the premise I begin with:
And God said, and God saw what God created, 
And it was good.  Another day.

2

So in the beginning was the Word,
And what a beautiful word,
Capitalized and turned into poetry,
Written by Moses, thank you,
And John, thank you,
And God, thank you that every word
I write down, every word I hear and read
Is so wonderfully preceded.

And the word was with God,
And the word was God.
May the words of my mouth be pleasing,
And they will be, of course,
As long as I remember where they came from,
As long as we return with this respect:
We give thee but thine own.

This is my premise:
God is the word, my word,
The being in the beginning,
The presence of I AM, through which 
All other beings began:
Without God there is nothing;
God is always and everything,
Life over emptiness, light over darkness,
The life and light of every being,
The beginning of us all.

As sunlight pours into a darkened room
And changes everything,
So does the light and life of God
Shine into the universe: the darkness cannot win.
In the beginning, God said,
Let there be light,
And there was, and it was good.
God was in the beginning, 
Pouring light into the void and giving life
Now and ever after.  


3

See, and listen, this is my premise:
There is a light that gives
Its light to everyone,
A light coming into our world of darkness,
And light changes everything.

And everything changes with this:
God, Word, light, shining upon us.
Living in our world, walking with us,
God in the flesh, God with us,
Immanuel!

And anyone who recognizes receives,
And anyone who receives the light believes
That God is with us and we are living
In God’s world: IN God’s world
Anyone who sees the glory of this,
The grace and truth and fullness
Of God, the one and only Word
In the world, this is our privilege.

No one can see God, but anyone 
Can see what God makes known,
And by seeing, we are privileged
To be born of God, children of God,
Willed and determined by God alone.
I begin with this premise.