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Let me tell you a story.
The first story my father told me,
and the first story that I told each of you.
In the beginning, there was nothing.
Nothing but the silence of an infinite darkness.
But the breath of The Creator fluttered against the face of the void, whispering,
Let there be light.
And light was. And it was good.
The first day.
And then the formless light
began to take on substance and shape.
A second day.
And our world was born.
Our beautiful, fragile home.
And a great, warming light nurtured its days.
And a lesser light ruled the nights.
And there was evening. And morning.
Another day.
And the waters of the world gathered together,
and in their midst emerged dry land.
Another day passed.
And the ground put forth the growing things.
A thick blanket of green stretching across all Creation.
The waters, too, teemed with life.
Great creatures of the deep that are no more.
Vast multitudes of fish,
some of which may still swim beneath these seas.
And soon the sky was streaming with birds.
And there was evening.
And there was morning. A fifth day.
Now the whole world was full of living beings.
Everything that creeps, everything that crawls,
and every beast that walks upon the ground.
And it was good. It was all good.
There was light and air and water
and soil, all clean and unspoiled.
There were plants and fish and fowl and beast,
each after their own kind.
All part of the greater whole. All in their place.
And all was in balance. It was paradise.
A jewel in The Creator's palm.
Then The Creator made Man. And by his side, Woman.
Father and mother of us all.
He gave them a choice.
Follow the temptation of darkness
or hold on to the blessing of light.
But they ate from the forbidden fruit.
Their innocence was extinguished.
And so for the ten generations since Adam, sin
has walked within us.
Brother against brother.
Nation against nation.
Man against Creation.
We murdered each other.
We broke the world. We did this.
Man did this.
Everything that was beautiful,
everything that was good,
we shattered
Now, it begins again.
world
within
whole
generations
gathered
clean
formless
fluttered
forbidden
ruled
balance
father
extinguished
everything
every
evening
emerged
shattered
began
again
beast
darkness
blessing
substance
woman
creator
these
after
warming
another
nurtured
things
creeps
beings
thick
which
greater
beneath
teemed
birds
lesser
begins
since
great
light
breath
place
broke
fifth
brother
across
beginning
nothing
beautiful
crawls
green
ground
silence
infinite
innocence
unspoiled
nights
growing
jewel
together
multitudes
blanket
nation
forth
creation
other
against
paradise
morning
choice
passed
second
shape
still
first
story
fragile
stretching
temptation
follow
midst
plants
their
fruit
creatures
murdered
streaming
there
walked
walks
water
mother
living
waters
whispering
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