God Gave Us A World
At the beginning of time and space,
God gave us a world.
And God filled it with the useful—
with granite, with gravity with grapes.
And God gave us minds and hands
to engineer the granite,
to probe the forces of gravity,
to squeeze the grapes.
At the beginning of time and space,
God gave us a world.
And God filled it with the beautiful—
with marble, with molds, with marigold.
And God gave us compassion and
imagination
to shape the marble into sculptures,
the molds into medicines,
the marigolds into tapestries of
yellow and bronze.
At the beginning of time and space,
God gave us a world.
And God filled it with the comic—
with croaking bullfrogs, with the buoyancy of
water, with duck-billed platypuses.
And God gave us, as image-bearers of God,
a sense of humor and different ways of
seeing in order to delight in the world.
At the beginning of time and space,
God gave us a world.
And he filled it with mystery—
with living cells and dying stars,
with black holes and the speed of light,
with human beings.
And God gave us dominion over the earth,
to till it and to nurture it with curiosity and creativity.
At the beginning of time, God gave us a world.
Let us give praise and thanksgiving to God, our Creator.
—Submitted by Kelloggsville Christian Reformed Church, Kentwood, Michigan
