Memory Verse: Beginnings

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” -Genesis 1:1 (KJV).

In the beginning was God.
He spoke and all things created came into being.
First there was chaos, a void, darkness covered the expanse of nothingness.
God hovered in power over the face of the abyss.
God spoke. He said, “Let there be light!” And light shone, brilliant, iridescent, in splendor.
God separated light from darkness. Day and night were born by the power of His voice.
The light period He called Day and the dark period He called Night.
God spoke again: The firmament, Heaven, separated from the waters, Sea.
God’s mighty voice spoke again: Earth appeared. The Seas gathered in ordered confines.
God commanded the Earth to bring forth vegetation, trees, fruit, and verdant growth.
By then it was the third day of creation. What a mighty God is at the helm of Creation!
God spoke and the universe embraced Day and Night, with lights to characterize each.
Beautiful and resplendent, the daytime and nighttime, ordered, arranged by God Almighty.
God thought awhile and spoke into being all the Sea creatures, great and small.
God thought further and fashioned all the Earth animals, each in its special habitat.
“Who will watch over all this marvelous Creation?” God asked.
And on the sixth day of creation He made Man, a real person, fashioned in His own image.
While a deep sleep came upon the man-made-in the image-of-God, God created a woman.
God introduced the Woman (Eve) to Man (Adam), and it was love at first sight.
Adam exclaimed: “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh!” He was happy, indeed.
Then God surveyed all that He had made in the first six days of Creation.
He saw that it was all very good. He was exceedingly pleased with what He had created.
And the seventh day He hallowed, and rested from His work of creation.
The Man and Woman rested in the beautiful Garden called Eden.
In the beginning the world was fresh, new, radiant, resplendent, perfect, complete.
The Creator God saw that all was very good; He was pleased with His noble creation. - Ethelene Dyer Jones 06.16.2016