At the edge of our expanding universe, our time locked realm meets the timeless place of God. As the Big Bang happened and time was created, God already was. At the centre of God is order, so atom by atom, order and form, time and space began to be created from the chaos of beginning. But it was not enough, so Ruach, the creative force of God, identified, and began to move over the chaos and breath a gentle wind of love into it. In the warmth of her gentle creative breath the pieces began to drop into place one by one, earth and sky, water and air, nature; flora and fauna. Ruach made all things, and God saw that it was just as it should be. It was not just ordered, but beautiful, and its creation filled God with joy.
But there was one thing that God found difficult to deal with, and that was the last thing that Ruach had created, humankind. When she had asked God whether all was complete, God had looked sad, for there was nothing in all of creation that had even the faintest chance of understanding what God and Ruach had done together. Ruach thought for a long time, then created two creatures in the image of God, which delighted God and filled them with so much pride, that something could glimpse the wonderful workings of the Universe, and the God who together had created it. God named the first of humankind A’dam and Eve, Man and Woman.
God set humankind in a beautiful garden where they could be perfectly themselves. God would come and be with them, and walk and talk with them in the garden. The garden was their home, where they could live their lives as they had been created to live. There was just one thing that God said they could not do, and that was that they must not eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge in the centre of the garden. But one time when God arrived for his walk, he could not find A’dam and Eve. Eventually after looking for a long time he found them hidden and covered. He realised then, that they had done the one thing they had been asked not to. They had eaten the forbidden fruit. God was so angry that he threw them out of the garden to manage on their own with the rest of creation. They were separated from God, but not from his attention.
God watched from afar the things that humankind got up to. How they forgot the Godlike qualities they possessed. In the end, even the God who had created them faded from their memories as well. God became unutterably sad. Eventually, searching through time, he found one human being called Abram, whom he felt would listen and learn from him. So in a cave in the mountains, tired and weary from many months travelling, Abram met and listened to God.
What God had to say changed Abram’s life, along with his descendants, for God promised them land and generations beyond number, if they would remember him, and worship only him. So God looked after the nation of Abram’s descendants, the Israelites, and when they forgot their side of the promise, to worship only God, Ruach went to those, whose job was to prophecy to the rest of the people, to keep them on the path which God had set for them. In dreams, in words, in visions and actions God hoped and Ruach tried, to keep the Israelites faithful. Again and again humankind forgot or ignored God, and eventually God’s patience ran out. God and Ruach withdrew to their place beyond time to think again about what they could do for rebellious humankind.
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