Day One - In the beginning . . .


With these familiar words our journey with God the Creator takes its initial steps out of a world that is formless and empty.  The Spirit of God provides inspiration, hovering over the waters that hold the potential for birthing something new and glorious.  What will that birth look like?  What sort of life will develop?  And how will God be involved later on when this new life begins to make its presence known on the earth?

Okay, so I like to ask questions.  I always have; I always will.  When I was a young boy it used to drive my mother a bit crazy.  Later on in life I discovered that asking questions was a component of the method used by the classical Greek philosopher Socrates ("I know that I know nothing") to engage in inquiry and debate.  I am a fan of the Socratic method and have enjoyed using it to teach introductory college classes in philosophy and ethics, as well as Bible studies in congregations.

I invite you to join in the discussion, which will not be so much about teaching each other what one passage or another of the Bible is saying to us, but what the journey means.  To have our eyes opened like Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:7) might not always be a good thing if the results take us in disobedience away from God.  But then again, if we hang in there long enough we just might, like Hagar, find comfort amidst a bad situation and be moved to cry out, "I have now seen the One who sees me" (Genesis 16:13).