A Thought For The Week Of June 25

"In the beginning God created heaven and earth." (Genesis 1:1) Wow. When you think about it, that handful of words that begins the Bible is awesome! They tell us that in the beginning God was already creating. So God comes before the beginning. God is around before anything else starts. I heard a physicist recently say that science talks a lot about what the Big Bang did but not a whole lot about where the Big Bang came from or how and why it happened. That's because it's mysterious. It's a lot like God - and maybe that tells us something. Whatever the process was that called existence itself into being was caused by God. God transcends time and space. And yet we believe that this awesome God who is so beyond us still loves and cares for every one us! Sometimes life deals us tough blows. There's no doubt about that. But in the midst of our troubles, we are still intimately connected with and loved by this God who created everything, who was around before the beginning and who will be around after the ending. If God loves us - and I believe that's true - then we'll be there after the ending, too, just as - in some way, even if only as a sparkle in the "mind" of God - we were there before the beginning. Nothing will even separate us from God's love. Have a great week!