Eve’s story is perhaps the most iconic for all women, as she is the first of us, the one from whom all of us have come, and her story becomes, in a certain sense, the source of our stories as well.
Day 7, It Is Finished
The seventh day was the first thing to be made sacred by God in Scripture. Later, when Moses recorded God’s ten commandments, the fourth one about keeping the Sabbath is grounded in this passage, right here.
Weighty Mysteries
The secrets of the very beginning of all things that have ever been, have been here for millennia, for any ordinary person to read. These are the weighty mysteries from which unfold our own beginnings, the meaning of life.
Fullness of Joy
Reading about the creation of the world was an incredible experince for me, as child. So full of lie, and joy, beauty and goodness.
“In the Beginning!”
Being called to dinner would break into my Bible world, and I would have to emerge into the dinginess of my real life.